Suppression of thermal conduction in non-cooling flow clusters

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Title:	Suppression of thermal conduction in non-cooling flow clusters
Authors:	Nath, Biman B.
Keywords:	galaxies: clusters: general intergalactic medium cosmology: theory X-rays: galaxies: clusters
Issue Date:	Apr-2003
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Astronomical Society
Citation:	Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2003, Vol.340, pL1-L5.
Abstract:	Recent X-ray observations have revealed a universal temperature profile for the intracluster gas of non-cooling flow clusters which is flat for r<= 0.2r180. Numerical simulations, however, obtain a steeper temperature profile in the inner region. We study the effect of thermal conduction on the intracluster gas in non-cooling flow clusters in light of these observations, using the steep temperature profiles obtained by numerical simulations. We find that, given 1010 yr for the intracluster gas to evolve, thermal conduction should be suppressed from the classical value by a factor of ~10-3 in order to explain the observations.
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URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1921
ISSN:	0035-8711
Alternative Location:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?2003MNRAS.340L...1N http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003MNRAS.340L...1N&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST
Copyright:	(2003) Royal Astronomical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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