Different Methods of Forming Cold Fronts in Nonmerging Clusters
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Different Methods of Forming Cold Fronts in Non-merging Clusters
Sharp edges in X-ray surface brightness with continuous gas pressure called cold fronts have been often found in relaxed galaxy clusters such as Abell 496. Models that explain cold fronts as surviving cores of head-on subcluster mergers do not work well for these clusters and competing models involving gas sloshing have been recently proposed. Here, we test some concrete predictions of these mo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/522194