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A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

  • A selection of advanced reviews that cover a wide range of Cluster of galaxies topics on:
  • Physics of the ICM gas
  • Internal cluster dynamics
  • Detection of clusters using different observational techniques
  • Analytical or numerical modeling of clusters
  • Weak and strong lensing effects
  • Large scale structure as traced by clusters
  • Cosmological significance of clusters
  • Formation and evolution of clusters within the new cosmological paradigm

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 740)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Gas Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies

    • C. L. Sarazin
    Pages 1-30
  3. Dynamics of the Hot Intracluster Medium

    • C. Jones, W. Forman, A. Vikhlinin, M. Markevitch, M. Machacek, E. Churazov
    Pages 31-69
  4. The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect in Cosmology and Cluster Physics

    • M. Birkinshaw, K. Lancaster
    Pages 255-286
  5. Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies

    • S. Borgani
    Pages 287-334
  6. Clusters and the Theory of the Cosmic Web

    • R. van de Weygaert, J. R. Bond
    Pages 335-408
  7. Observations and Morphology of the Cosmic Web

    • Rien van de Weygaert, J. R. Bond
    Pages 409-468
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 469-474

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Palaia Pendeli 152 36, Greece

    Manolis Plionis

  • Inst Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla, México

    Manolis Plionis, David Hughes, Omar López-Cruz

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