Spectroscopy of cooling clusters

Description

X-ray spectroscopy of cooling clusters......Page 1 Introduction......Page 2 Clusters of galaxies......Page 3 Coronal approximation......Page 4 Ionization balance......Page 5 Discrete line emission......Page 6 X-ray cooling function and emission measure distribution......Page 7 Optical depth, resonance scattering, and opacity......Page 8 Magneto-hydrodynamics......Page 9 Single-phase flows......Page 10 Thermal instability and multiphase flows......Page 11 Standard multiphase cooling flow model......Page 12 X-ray telescopes and their relevance to clusters......Page 13 Analysis techniques......Page 14 Early work on imaging observations......Page 15 Early work on low resolution spectroscopy......Page 16 Reflection grating spectrometer observations......Page 17 Recent spatially-resolved spectro-photometric observations......Page 20 Definition of the cooling flow problem......Page 24 Are cooling flows ruled out?......Page 26 Heating......Page 27 Overview of radio bubbles......Page 28 The simple theory of bubbles......Page 29 Numerical simulations of radio bubbles......Page 31 Role of magnetic fields and cosmic rays......Page 32 Discussions......Page 33 Acknowledgments......Page 34 References......Page 35