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Intracluster Medium

The Intracluster Medium is a diffuse, high-temperature plasma that constitutes the dominant baryonic component of galaxy clusters, distinguished from interstellar and circumgalactic media by its gravitational confinement within the cluster’s potential well and its emission of thermal X-rays.

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On the Infall of Matter Into Clusters of Galaxies and Some Effects on Their Evolution

James E. Gunn, III Gott J. Richard · The Astrophysical Journal · 1972 · 3.9K citations

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Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback

A. C. Fabian · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Lars Hernquist et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2017 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Heating Hot Atmospheres with Active Galactic Nuclei

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Formation of Galaxy Clusters

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012 · 840 citations · Full text

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  1. AC
    A. C. Fabian

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    95 publications · 10.6K citations

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  2. MB
    M. Brüggen

    Universität Hamburg, Germany

    64 publications · 3.9K citations

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  3. PE
    P. E. J. Nulsen

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    45 publications · 4.4K citations

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    W. Forman

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    55 publications · 4.2K citations

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    J. S. Sanders

    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

    42 publications · 3.4K citations

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    76 h-index

    501 publications

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  2. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

    64 h-index

    205 publications

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  3. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Germany

    61 h-index

    254 publications

    19.4K citations

  4. Institute of Astronomy

    Moscow, Russia

    53 h-index

    233 publications

    22K citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    50 h-index

    129 publications

    9.4K citations

  6. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    50 h-index

    169 publications

    17.1K citations

  7. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    48 h-index

    138 publications

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  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    48 h-index

    183 publications

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 760 publications · 59.3K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    215 publications · 13.2K citations

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  4. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 69 publications · 4K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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