Abstract The luminous material in clusters of galaxies falls primarily into two forms — the visible galaxies and the X-ray emitting intracluster medium. The hot intracluster medium is the major observed baryonic component of clusters with a mass equal to or greater than that of the stellar matter. In this paper we review the structure and morphology of rich clusters as inferred from X-ray observations of the ICM. We also discuss changes in the efficiency of galaxy formation for different clusters and the origin of the intracluster medium.
Clusters of galaxies and the hot intracluster medium
Advances in Space Research ; 10 , 2 ; 209-216
1989-01-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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