Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #338.16
Statistics
Computation
Scientific paper
Numerical simulations have provided significant insight into our understanding of galaxy clusters. However, even the most state-of-the-art simulations that include sophisticated treatments of radiative cooling and feedback fail to properly model the intracluster medium. Thermal conduction has been theorized to be very influential in regulating the thermal state in this region, yet due to technical challenges of including this process, the effects have been studied numerically in only a handful of clusters, yielding inconclusive results. We present the results from a series of cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters including isotropic thermal conduction using the Enzo adaptive mesh-refinement + N-body code. We perform simulations including isotropic Spitzer conduction at multiple levels of efficiency. Our computational domain includes a few moderately massive clusters as well as a large number of massive galaxy groups. We investigate the effect of thermal conduction on a variety of galaxy cluster properties, including entropy and temperature profiles; star formation rates; and baryon fractions.
O'Shea Brian W.
Smith Britton D.
Voit Michael
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