Friday, October 25, 2013
2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
Cahill 370
TAPIR Seminar
Series: TAPIR Seminar Series
Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?
Mike McCourt,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
U.C. Berkeley,
The hot plasma filling galaxy clusters is susceptible to a convective MHD instability known as the MTI.
Understanding the implications of this convection has been surprisingly difficult, however; it depends
on both the large-scale evolution of the cluster and on the plasma physics of the gas. I will describe
a new set of "semi-cosmological" simulations which capture enough of the cosmic evolution of galaxy
clusters to reproduce their large-scale properties but still provide an idealized environment in which to
study cluster convection and its implications.
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For more information, please contact JoAnn Boyd by phone at 4280 or by email at [email protected].