Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1994. 32: 277-318 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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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