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astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited
Runaway Merger Shocks in Galaxy Cluster Outskirts and Radio Relics
Congyao Zhang, Eugene Churazov, William R. Forman +1
Moderately strong shocks arise naturally when two subclusters merge. For instance, when a smaller subcluster falls into the gravitational potential of a more massive cluster, a bow…
astro-ph.CO2019★ 18 cited
Turbulence decay in the density-stratified intracluster medium
Xun Shi, Congyao Zhang
Turbulence evolution in a density-stratified medium differs from that of homogeneous isotropic turbulence described by the Kolmogorov picture. We evaluate the degree of this effect…