Cold gas in the intracluster medium: implications for flow dynamics and powering optical nebulae

2008/06/20 by Edward Pope, T. W. Hartquist, Thomas Hartquist +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Cluster (spacecraft) #Cooling flow #Evaporation #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy cluster #Intracluster medium #Luminosity #Meteorology #Physics #Star formation #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13622.x

8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

arxiv created 2008/06/20 · openalex publication_date 2008/07/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Line-emitting nebulae surround approximately a third of all Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) (Crawford et al. 1999). The occurance of these optical nebulae appears to have some correspondence to the short radiative cooling time of the

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