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The astrophysics of the intracluster plasma
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2013.08.001 Bibcode: 2013PhR...533...69C

Lapi, Andrea; Cavaliere, Alfonso

Since 1971 observations in X rays of several thousands of galaxy clusters have uncovered huge amounts of hot baryons filling up the deep gravitational potential wells provided by dark matter (DM) halos with masses of some 1015 M and sizes of millions of light-years. At temperatures T∼108 K and with average densiti…

2013 Physics Reports
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