intracluster medium
(ICM, intracluster gas)
(hot plasma throughout a galaxy cluster)
The intracluster medium (ICM or intracluster gas) is
very hot plasma spread throughout a galaxy cluster
(most dense in the center),
typically hydrogen and helium ions at
10 to 100 megakelvins.
A cluster's total ICM mass is more than that of all
its stars, but still a fraction of the cluster's dark matter mass.
The ICMs of galaxy clusters are X-ray sources.
The term intergalactic medium (IGM) often is used for the ICM, but presumably
may be used with the intention of also including any medium between
galaxy clusters.
(galaxy clusters,plasma)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracluster_medium
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/I/Intra-cluster+Medium
https://dictionary.obspm.fr/index.php?showAll=1&formSearchTextfield=intracluster+medium
https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/intra-cluster_medium.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...517..627M/abstract
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept12/Kravtsov/Kravtsov2.html
https://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/galaxies/icm.html
Referenced by pages:
bremsstrahlung
Bullet Cluster
Cloudy
cluster radius
cooling flow
cosmic background radiation (CBR)
fossil group
galaxy cluster (CL)
intergalactic medium (IGM)
ion
Massive Cluster Survey (MACS)
quenched galaxy
radio halo
radio relics
star formation feedback
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect)
thermal bremsstrahlung
turbulent pressure
Zwicky 3146 (Zw 3146)
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