The Onset of Thermally Unstable Cooling from the Hot Atmospheres of Giant Galaxies in Clusters: Constraints on Feedback Models

The Onset of Thermally Unstable Cooling from the Hot Atmospheres of Giant Galaxies in Clusters: Constraints on Feedback Models

We present accurate mass and thermodynamic profiles for 57 galaxy clusters observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We investigate the effects of local gravitational acceleration in central cluster galaxies, and explore the role of the local free-fall time (tff) in thermally unstable cooling. We...

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Main Authors: Hogan, M. T., McNamara, B. R., Pulido, F. A., Nulsen, P. E. J., Vantyghem, A. N., Russell, H. R., Edge, A. C., Babyk, Iu., Main, R. A., McDonald, Michael A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117575
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5226-8349

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117575
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5226-8349

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