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astro-ph.CO2010★ 32 cited
Gravitational Quenching by Clumpy Accretion in Cool Core Clusters: Convective Dynamical Response to Overheating
Yuval Birnboim, Avishai Dekel
Many galaxy clusters pose a "cooling-flow problem", where the observed X-ray emission from their cores is not accompanied by enough cold gas or star formation. A continuous energy…
astro-ph.CO2010★ 28 cited
Cold Fronts by Merging of Shocks
Yuval Birnboim, Uri Keshet, Lars Hernquist
Cold fronts (CFs) are found in most galaxy clusters, as well as in some galaxies and groups of galaxies. We propose that some CFs are relics of merging between two shocks propagati…