Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Sculpting Cosmic Gas into Galaxy Clusters
Galaxy clusters are filled with a hot, tenuous plasma known as the
intracluster medium, or ICM. I will discuss recent work aimed at
understanding how the plasma can cool to form multi-phase gas, and
what implications this cooling has for the structure of the ICM. I
apply this result to the observed non-self-similarity (analogous to
the missing baryon problem) in clusters. I will also discuss a
project to understand the temperature profiles in the ICM and what
implications this has for convection and turbulent pressure support in
clusters.
Date & Time
October 11, 2012 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location
Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics LibrarySpeakers
Mike McCourt
Affiliation
University of California at Berkeley