Journal article
The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters – I. Dynamical evolution and emergent transient structures
Abstract
We report on the analysis of a suite of smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations (incorporating cooling and star formation) of mergers involving idealized X-ray clusters whose initial conditions resemble relaxed clusters with cool compact cores observed by Chandra and XMM. The simulations sample the most-interesting, theoretically plausible, range of impact parameters and progenitor mass ratios. We find that all mergers evolve via a common …
Authors
Poole GB; Fardal MA; Babul A; McCarthy IG; Quinn T; Wadsley J
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 373, No. 3, pp. 881–905
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
December 11, 2006
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10916.x
ISSN
0035-8711