A pan-chromatic view of clusters of galaxies and the large-scale structure / M. Plionis, O. López-Cruz, D. Hughes (Eds.)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plionis, Manolis.

López-Cruz, O. (Omar)

Hughes, David H.

Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica (Mexico)

Series:

Lecture notes in physics ; 740.

Lecture notes in physics ; 740

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galaxies--Clusters--Congresses.

Galaxies.

Galaxies--Clusters.

Large scale structure (Astronomy)--Congresses.

Large scale structure (Astronomy).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Panchromatic view of clusters of galaxies and the LSS

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2008]

Summary:

The study of clusters of galaxies has advanced tremendously in the recent years due to the advent of large or dedicated ground-based telescopes, the increasingly sensitive space observatories and the significant advances in numerical astrophysics and cosmology.

The current generations of large spectroscopic and wide-field imaging survey and ongoing multi-wavelength studies, covering a large range of the electromagnetic spectrum from X-rays to the sub-mm and the radio, are making major breakthroughs in our understanding of galaxy aggregation and transformation processes in different environments, on the properties of the tenuous ICM gas, on the starburst activity and on revealing environmental effects on galaxy formation and evolution.

The reviews presented in this volume cover a wide-range of cluster of galaxies topics like the physics of the ICM gas, the internal cluster dynamics, the detection of clusters using different observational techniques, the great advances in analytical or numerical modeling of clusters, weak and strong lensing effects, the large scale structure as traced by clusters, the cosmological significance of clusters as well as the formation and evolution of clusters within the new cosmological paradigm. This volume is aimed towards the researchers and senior graduate students in multi-wavelength astrophysics and cosmology.

Contents:

Gas Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies / C. L. Sarazin 1

2 Physical State of the Intracluster Gas 2

3 X-ray Emission 4

4 The Intracluster Medium as a Fluid 7

5 Transport Processes 7

6 Hydrodynamics 8

7 Hydrostatic Equilibrium 9

8 Cluster Masses 12

9 Heating and Cooling of Intracluster Gas 14

10 Cluster Mergers 18

11 Thermal Physics of Merger Shocks 18

12 Mergers and Cool Cluster Cores 23

Dynamics of the Hot Intracluster Medium / C. Jones, W. Forman, A. Vikhlinin, M. Markevitch, M. Machacek, E. Churazov 31

1 General Properties of Clusters 31

2 Cooling and Feedback in Cluster Cores 37

3 Cluster Formation and Evolution 52

4 The Effects of Clusters on Galaxies 56

5 Clusters and Cosmology 62

Dynamics of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies / L. A. Aguilar 71

2 Basic Galactic Dynamics 72

3 A Case Study: The Navarro, Frenk and White profile 75

4 Other Interesting Profiles 88

5 The Orbital Structure of Spherical Potentials 90

6 A Sticky Story: Dynamical Friction 95

7 The Effect of Tides 99

8 Tidal Encounters 103

9 Putting Things Together: The Orbital Decay of a Satellite within an Extended Halo 108

Optical Detection of Clusters of Galaxies / R. R. Gal 119

2 Photographic Cluster Catalogs 120

3 Hybrid Photo-Digital Surveys 122

4 Digital CCD Surveys 123

5 Algorithms 125

Clusters of Galaxies in the Radio: Relativistic Plasma and ICM/Radio Galaxy Interaction Processes / L. Feretti, G. Giovannini 143

2 Basic Formulas from the Synchrotron Theory 144

3 Radio Emission from the ICM: Diffuse Radio Sources 149

4 Radio Emitting Particles 156

5 Cluster Magnetic Fields 160

6 Radio Emission from Cluster Radio Galaxies 167

Metal Content and Production in Clusters of Galaxies / A. Renzini 177

2 Metals in the ICM 177

3 Metal Production: the Parent Stellar Population 187

4 Metal Production: Type Ia vs. Type II Supernovae 189

5 Metals from Galaxies to the ICM: Ejection vs. Extraction 198

6 Metals as Tracers of ICM Pre-heating 200

7 Clusters vs. Field at z = 0 and the Overall Metallicity of the Universe 201

8 Clusters vs. the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way 204

Gravitational Lensing by Clusters of Galaxies / J.-P. Kneib 213

2 Historical Perspective 213

3 Lensing Theory Useful in Cluster Lensing 217

4 Constraining the Cluster Mass Distribution 229

5 Clusters Lenses as Natural Telescopes 245

6 Cosmological Constraints 246

7 Future and Prospects 248

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Cosmology and Cluster Physics / M. Birkinshaw, K. Lancaster 255

2 The Physics of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect 256

3 Observing the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect 263

4 Cluster Science from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect 273

5 Cosmology from the SZ Effect 277

6 The Next Generation of Instruments 281

Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies / S. Borgani 287

2 A Concise Handbook of Cosmic Structure Formation 289

3 The Mass Function 297

4 Building a Cluster Sample 301

5 Methods to Estimate Cluster Masses 307

6 Constraints on Cosmological Parameters 315

7 The Future 325

Clusters and the Theory of the Cosmic Web / R. van de Weygaert, J. R. Bond 335

1 Outline: The Cosmic Web 335

2 Cosmic Structure Formation: From Primordial Quantum Noise to the Cosmic Web 337

3 Hierarchical Structure Formation 349

4 Anisotropic and Weblike Patterns 366

5 Conclusion: Clusters and the Cosmic Web 404

Observations and Morphology of the Cosmic Web / Rien van de Weygaert, J. R. Bond 409

2 The Emergence of the Cosmic Web 411

3 Spatial Structure, Pattern Analysis and Object Identification 432

4 Voids 442

5 Conclusion: Morphology of the Cosmic Web 460.

Notes:

"This book is the selection of invited reviews, presented during the 2005 Guillermo Haro Advanced School (GH2005) on 'A panchromatic view of clusters of galaxies and the LSS', organized by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica in Tonantzintla, México"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781402069406

1402069405

OCLC:

183259671