A thermally stable heating mechanism for the intracluster medium: turbulence, magnetic fields and plasma instabilities
We consider the problem of self-regulated heating and cooling in galaxy clusters and the implications for cluster magnetic fields and turbulence. Viscous heating of a weakly collisional magnetised plasma is regulated by the pressure anisotropy with respect to the local direction of the magnetic fiel...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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