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Cooling Flows and the Formation of Dark matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

A. C. Fabian ,
K. A. Arnaud  and
P. A. Thomas
A. C. Fabian
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA, United Kingdom
K. A. Arnaud
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA, United Kingdom
P. A. Thomas
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA, United Kingdom

Abstract

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The distribution of matter condensing out of cooling flows in clusters of galaxies and individual elliptical galaxies has been studied using X-ray data and is found to resemble the expected mass profiles of the underlying galaxies. Most of the cooled gas must create objects of high mass-to-light ratio, although some more normal stars are produced. Cooling flows provide an observable mechanism for the continual formation of dark matter around galaxies. Since the conditions at galaxy formation are similar to those in cooling flows if the gas reaches the virial temperature, we suggest that they are local models of galaxy formation.

Type
Review Paper
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 117: Dark Matter in the Universe , 1987 , pp. 201 - 213
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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