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Problems in suppressing cooling flows in clusters of galaxies by global heat conduction

arXiv:astro-ph/0302381 · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06548.x

Abstract

I use a simple analytical model to show that simple heat conduction models cannot significantly suppress cluster cooling flows. I build a static medium where heat conduction globally balances radiative cooling, and then perturb it. I show that a perturbation extending over a large fraction of the cooling flow region will grow to the non-linear regime within a Hubble time. Such perturbations are reasonable in clusters which frequently experience mergers and/or AGN activity. This result strengthens previous findings which show that a steady solution does not exist for a constant heat conduction coefficient.

MNRAS, in press

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