Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the "Memorie della SAIt", proceedings of the "LI congresso della Societa' Astronomica Italian
Scientific paper
In the last eight years, the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites changed significantly our view of X-ray clusters of galaxies. In particular, several complex phenomena have been directly observed: interactions between cluster galaxies and the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM), cold fronts in the ICM, hot bubbles due to relativistic jets from radio loud AGN, the lack of cold gas in ``cool-cores'', and non-thermal X-ray emission. Still, this increasing complexity does not prevent us from using X-ray clusters as a tool to constrain cosmological parameters. In addition, observations of clusters up to redshift ~1.3 allowed us to trace the thermodynamical and chemical evolution of the ICM on a time interval as large as 8 Gyr. In this presentation, I will give a personal introduction to the most debated topics in this field, to end with some prospects for the next-generation X-ray satellites.
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