Heating versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference held in Garching, Germany, 6-11 August 2006 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Böhringer, H. (Editor), Pratt, G.W (Editor), Finoguenov, A. (Editor), Schuecker, P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Eso Astrophysics Symposia, European Southern Observatory,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The present volume is the record of a recent topical conference on the interplay between heating and cooling processes in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. The volume documents recent progress in our understanding of the dense central regions of these objects. Chapters detail recent results from mu...

Table of Contents:

• Observations of Cooling Cores
• AGN-ICM Interaction in Cool Cores
• Cooling Cores in Elliptical Galaxies
• Modelling the AGN-ICM Interaction
• Entropy Structures
• Chemical Abundances in Cool Cores
• Optical and Sub-mm Observations of Cool Cores
• Numerical Simulations and Cosmological Applications
• Suzaku Observations
• Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxy Formation
• Conference Summary.