Cooling and heating the intracluster medium in hydrodynamical simulations
Cooling and heating the intracluster medium in hydrodynamical simulations
We discuss tree+SPH (smoothed-particle hydrodynamics) simulations of galaxy clusters and groups, aimed at studying the effect of cooling and non-gravitational heating on observable properties of the intracluster medium (ICM). We simulate at high resolution four group- and cluster-sized haloes, with virial masses in the range (0.2–4) × 1014 M⊙, extracted …