Discovery of Ghost Cavities in the X-Ray Atmosphere of Abell 2597

By B. McNamara, M. Wise, P. Nulsen, L. David, C. Carilli, C. Sarazin, C. O’Dea, John C. Houck, M. Donahue, S. Baum and 3 more. 2001

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Comparing the temperatures of galaxy clusters from hydrodynamical N-body simulations to Chandra and XMM-Newton observations (2004, background): “…& Murray 2001; Mazzotta, Edge & Markevitch 2003), cavities (Fabian et al. 2000; McNamara et al. 2000; Blanton et al. 2001; Markevitch et al. 2001; McNamara et al. 2001; Heinz et al. 2002; Johnstone et al. 2002; Mazzotta et al. 2002; Sanders & Fabian 2002; Smith et al. 2002; Young, Wilson &…”
What Shapes the Luminosity Function of Galaxies? (2003, background): “…means by which the supply of cold gas to the galaxy disk may be reduced is suggested by recent Chandra and XMM observations of galaxy clusters (Peterson et al. 2001; Tamura et al. 2001; Fabian et al. 2001; Johnstone et al. 2002; Böhringer et al. 2002; McNamara et al. 2001; Nulsen et al. 2002).”
STIRRING UP THE POT: CAN COOLING FLOWS IN GALAXY CLUSTERS BE QUENCHED BY GAS SLOSHING? (2009, background): “The currently favored mechanism is heating by the central AGN (e.g., Böhringer et al. 1993; Binney & Tabor 1995; McNamara et al. 2001, 2005; Fabian et al. 2006; Forman et al. 2007; for a recent review see McNamara & Nulsen 2006).”
What is a cool-core cluster? a detailed analysis of the cores of the X-ray flux-limited HIFLUGCS cluster sample (2009, background): “A2597 McNamara et al. (2001) analyzed the original, short, flared observation of A2597, noting the ghost bubbles.”
AGN Feedback and Cooling Flows: Problems with Simple Hydrodynamic Models (2005, background): “…has studied numerous examples of ICM bubbles (Fabian et al. 2000; McNamara et al. 2000; Blanton et al. 2001; Young et al. 2002), ghost bubbles (McNamara et al. 2001; Heinz et al. 2002; Choi et al. 2004; Fabian et al. 2000), ripples (Fabian et al. 2003, 2005b), shells (Fabian et al. 2000),…”
The structural and scaling properties of nearby galaxy clusters. I. The universal mass profile (2005, unknown): “A2597 has been studied with the Chandra satellite, exhibiting ghost cavities in its centreat a radius of about 30 kpc (McNamara et al. 2001).”
AGN heating and ICM cooling in the HIFLUGCS sample of galaxy clusters (2008, unknown): “…regions emptied of ICM by the expanding radio lobes [e.g. Perseus, Boehringer et al. (1993); Hydra-A, McNamara et al. (2000); A2052, Blanton et al. (2001); A2597, McNamara et al. (2001); A4059, Heinz et al. (2002); A478, Sun et al. (2003); A2029, Clarke et al. (2004); A2199 Gentile et al. (2007)].”
Heating Hot Atmospheres with Active Galactic Nuclei (2007, background): “We now know that nearly three dozen cD clusters and a similar number of gE galaxies and groups harbor cavities or bubbles in their X-ray halos (Fabian et al. 2000; McNamara et al. 2000, 2001; Schindler et al. 2001; Heinz et al. 2002; Mazzotta et al. 2002).”
Thermal conduction and reduced cooling flows in galaxy clusters (2003, unknown): “2001a; [22] Kaastra et al. 2001; [23] McNamara et al. 2001.”
X-ray Spectroscopy of Cooling Clusters (2005, background): “…in the Perseus cluster are seen in Hydra A (McNamara et al. 2000); A2052 (Blanton et al. 2001); Centaurus (Fabian et al. 2000); M87 (Young et al. 2002; Forman et al. 2003); A2597 (McNamara et al. 2001; Clarke et al. 2005) and many more (Birzan et al. 2004; Dunn & Fabian 2004; Dunn et al. 2005).”
Heating cooling flows with jets (2003, background): “Imaging data for several systems now show ‘cavities’ in the X-ray emitting plasma that coincide to some degree with peaks in the non-thermal radio emission (Böhringer et al. 1993; Churazov et al. 2000; McNamara et al. 2000, 2001; Blanton et al. 2001).”
Buoyant radio lobes in a viscous intracluster medium (2004, background): “Examples are found in the Perseus cluster (Fabian et al. 2003a), Abell 2597 (McNamara et al. 2001), and Abell 4059 (Heinz et al. 2002, Choi et al. 2004).”
The Cluster-Scale AGN Outburst in Hydra A (2004, background): “…cavities in the hot gas in a growing number of clusters (Böhringer et al. 1993; Carilli et al. 1994; McNamara et al. 2000; Fabian et al. 2000; McNamara et al. 2001; Blanton et al. 2001; Schindler et al. 2001; Heinz et al. 1 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street,…”
Cooling flows as a calorimeter of active galactic nucleus mechanical power (2002, background): “At this stage, bubbles can be identified as X–ray surface brightness “holes” that are not associated with strong radio emission (Churazov et al. 2000, Fabian et al. 2000, McNamara et al. 2001).”
Jet-regulated cooling catastrophe (2010, background): “Observational evidence for strong AGN activity in groups and clusters is plenty (Arnaud et al. 1984; Carilli, Perley & Harris 1994; McNamara et al. 2001, 2005; Fabian et al. 2002; Bı̂rzan et al. 2004; Forman et al. 2007).”