Cooling and Clusters: When Is Heating Needed?

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2005-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502458v1

Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond. A363 (2005) 715-724

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, published in Philosophical Transactions A (Royal Society)

Scientific paper

10.1098/rsta.2004.1515

There are (at least) two unsolved problems concerning the current state of the thermal gas in clusters of galaxies. The first is identifying the source of the heating which offsets cooling in the centers of clusters with short cooling times (the ``cooling flow'' problem). The second is understanding the mechanism which boosts the entropy in cluster and group gas. Since both of these problems involve an unknown source of heating it is tempting to identify them with the same process, particular since AGN heating is observed to be operating at some level in a sample of well-observed ``cooling flow'' clusters. Here we show, using numerical simulations of cluster formation, that much of the gas ending up in clusters cools at high redshift and so the heating is also needed at high-redshift, well before the cluster forms. This indicates that the same process operating to solve the cooling flow problem may not also resolve the cluster entropy problem.

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