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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Mergers are the mechanisms by which galaxy clusters are assembled through the hierarchical growth of smaller clusters and groups. Major cluster mergers are the most energetic events in the Universe since the Big Bang. Many of the observed properties of clusters depend on the physics of the merging process. These include substructure, shock, intra cluster plasma temperature and entropy structure, mixing of heavy elements within the intra cluster medium, acceleration of high-energy particles, formation of radio halos and the effects on the galaxy radio emission.
This book reviews our current understanding of cluster merging from an observational and theoretical perspective, and is appropriate for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Merging Processes in Galaxy Clusters
Editors: L. Feretti, I. M. Gioia, G. Giovannini
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48096-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0531-2Published: 30 June 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5984-0Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48096-6Published: 18 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 320
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory