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Energetics of the Intracluster Medium
Speaker(s): Paul Bode
Abstract: "Taking gravitational potential wells from a dark matter simulation, and assuming a polytropic equation of state and hydrostatic equilibrium, one can predict the state of the hot gas in clusters of galaxies. With reasonable values for star formation efficiency, energy input, and nonthermal pressure ... read more
Date: 27/04/2009 - 2:00 pm
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