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COOLING FLOWS IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES
A. C. Fabian
Institute of
Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA,
United Kingdom
Key Words: clustering, galaxy formation, radio sources, X rays
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- The Hot Intracluster Medium
- OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE FOR COOLING FLOWS
- X-Ray Imaging Evidence for Cooling Flows
- X-Ray Spectral Evidence for Cooling Flows
- Summary of X-Ray Data
- APPEARANCE OF COOLING FLOWS AT OTHER WAVEBANDS
- Optical Data
- Infrared
- Radio
- Summary of Data from Non-X-Ray Wavebands
- THEORETICAL ISSUES ON COOLING FLOWS
- The Global Structure
- The Local Structure of Cooling Flows
- Summary of the Conditions in a Cooling Flow
- DISTANT COOLING FLOWS
- COOLING FLOWS AND GALAXY FORMATION
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
