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most citedStudying the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium in emission: a reprise

8 citations · 23 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

XRISM observations of the Perseus cluster along two arms: Chaotic ICM motions probed by resonant scattering

Annie Heinrich, Irina Zhuravleva, Congyao Zhang +13

XRISM has mapped gas velocities across the core of the Perseus cluster, separating the kinematic effects of mergers and AGN feedback. The physical properties of these motions remai…

astro-ph.GA2026

Supersonic Motion in the Driving Region of M82

Skylar Grayson, Evan Scannapieco, Philipp Grete +5

The prototypical starburst galaxy M82 is host to an expansive, multiphase outflow whose driving mechanism is not fully understood. Longstanding models suggest that energy and mass…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probable Detection of a Cooler Gas Component in the Perseus Cluster with XRISM

Julian Meunier, Brian R. McNamara, Aurora Simionescu +36

We present an analysis of the temperature structure of the Perseus cluster atmosphere using XRISM Resolve observations. The average temperature rises from 3.3 keV near the nucleus…

astro-ph.CO2026

Intracluster Medium Fluctuations on Scales up to 1 Mpc: A Combined eROSITA and SPT/Planck Analysis of Abell 3266

H. Saxena, A. Heinrich, J. Sayers +22

Galaxy clusters form through hierarchical assembly, where smaller substructures merge to build the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe. These mergers, combined wi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Effects of Viscosity on Sloshing Cold Fronts in Galaxy Clusters

Ming-Hsueh Hsieh, H. -Y. Karen Yang, John ZuHone

The viscous properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) remain poorly constrained. Cold fronts-sharp discontinuities formed during cluster mergers-offer a potential avenue to probe…

astro-ph.HE2025

From Observations to Simulations: A Neural-Network Approach to Intracluster Medium Kinematics

E. Gatuzz, J. ZuHone, J. S. Sanders +4

We present a systematic comparison between {\it XMM-Newton} velocity maps of the Virgo, Centaurus, Ophiuchus and A3266 clusters and synthetic velocity maps generated from the Illus…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Deep Chandra View of Abell 2597: Bubbles, Shocks, Cold Fueling, and a Plasma Depletion Layer

Osase Omoruyi, Grant Tremblay, Stefi A. Baum +14

To examine how AGN feedback shapes the intracluster medium (ICM) and fuels black hole accretion in the cool-core galaxy cluster Abell 2597, we present deep (600 ks) Chandra X…

astro-ph.CO2025

Estimating the triaxiality of massive clusters from 2D observables in MillenniumTNG with machine learning

Ana Maria Delgado, Michelle Ntampaka, Sownak Bose +7

Properties of massive galaxy clusters, such as mass abundance and concentration, are sensitive to cosmology, making cluster statistics a powerful tool for cosmological studies. How…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence

Congyao Zhang, Irina Zhuravleva, Annie Heinrich +19

In this paper, we present extended gas kinematic maps of the Perseus cluster by combining five new XRISM/Resolve pointings observed in 2025 with four Performance Verification datas…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Importance of Being Adaptable: An Exploration of the Power and Limitations of Domain Adaptation for Simulation-Based Inference with Galaxy Clusters

Michelle Ntampaka, A. Ciprijanovic, Ana Maria Delgado +4

The application of deep machine learning methods in astronomy has exploded in the last decade, with new models showing remarkably improved performance on benchmark tasks. Not nearl…

astro-ph.GA2025

Comparing XRISM cluster velocity dispersions with predictions from cosmological simulations: are feedback models too ejective?

XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +147

The dynamics of the intra-cluster medium (ICM), the hot plasma that fills galaxy clusters, are shaped by gravity-driven cluster mergers and feedback from supermassive black holes (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Revisiting Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations through Dark Matter-Gas Coherence: Scatter Dependence on Dynamical State

Giulia Cerini, Elena Bellomi, Nico Cappelluti +4

Galaxy clusters, the most massive, dark-matter-dominated, and most recently assembled structures in the Universe, are key tools for probing cosmology. However, uncertainties in sca…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Disentangling Multiple Gas Kinematic Drivers in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster

XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +143

Galaxy clusters, the Universe's largest halo structures, are filled with 10-100 million degree X-ray-emitting gas. Their evolution is shaped by energetic processes such as feedback…

astro-ph.GA2025

X-ray emission signatures of galactic feedback in the hot circumgalactic medium: predictions from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Emily M. Silich, John ZuHone, Elena Bellomi +6

Little is currently known about the physical properties of the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies. Next-generation X-ray observatories will enable detaile…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy cluster characterization with machine learning techniques

Maria Sadikov, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Laurence Perreault Levasseur +4

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the galaxy cluster population in the z=0 snapshot of the IllustrisTNG simulations, utilizing machine learning techniques to perfor…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Jet interaction with galaxy cluster mergers

Paola Domínguez-Fernández, John ZuHone, Rainer Weinberger +4

AGN bubbles in cool-core galaxy clusters are believed to facilitate the transport of cosmic ray electrons (CRe) throughout the cluster. Recent radio observations are revealing comp…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

OLIMPO: a Balloon-Borne SZE Imager to Probe ICM Dynamics and the WHIM

Jack Sayers, Camille Avestruz, Ritoban Basu Thakur +20

OLIMPO is a proposed Antarctic balloon-borne Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) imager to study gas dynamics associated with structure formation along with the properties of the warm-…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

Studying the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium in emission: a reprise

G. Parimbelli, E. Branchini, M. Viel +2

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is believed to host a significant fraction of the ``missing baryons'' in the nearby Universe. Its signature has been detected in the X-ray…