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| Gas Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Physical State of the Intracluster Gas | |
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| X-ray Emission | |
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| The Intracluster Medium as a Fluid | |
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| Transport Processes | |
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| Hydrodynamics | |
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| Hydrostatic Equilibrium | |
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| Cluster Masses | |
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| Heating and Cooling of Intracluster Gas | |
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| Cluster Mergers | |
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| Thermal Physics of Merger Shocks | |
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| Mergers and Cool Cluster Cores | |
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| References | |
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| Dynamics of the Hot Intracluster Medium | |
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| General Properties of Clusters | |
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| Cooling and Feedback in Cluster Cores | |
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| Cluster Formation and Evolution | |
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| The Effects of Clusters on Galaxies | |
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| Clusters and Cosmology | |
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| References | |
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| Dynamics of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Galactic Dynamics | |
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| A Case Study: The Navarro, Frenk and White profile | |
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| Other Interesting Profiles | |
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| The Orbital Structure of Spherical Potentials | |
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| A Sticky Story: Dynamical Friction | |
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| The Effect of Tides | |
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| Tidal Encounters | |
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| Putting Things Together: The Orbital Decay of a Satellite within an Extended Halo | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Some Final Words | |
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| References | |
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| Optical Detection of Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Photographic Cluster Catalogs | |
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| Hybrid Photo-Digital Surveys | |
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| Digital CCD Surveys | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Clusters of Galaxies in the Radio: Relativistic Plasma and ICM/Radio Galaxy Interaction Processes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Formulas from the Synchrotron Theory | |
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| Radio Emission from the ICM: Diffuse Radio Sources | |
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| Radio Emitting Particles | |
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| Cluster Magnetic Fields | |
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| Radio Emission from Cluster Radio Galaxies | |
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| References | |
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| Metal Content and Production in Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Metals in the ICM | |
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| Metal Production: the Parent Stellar Population | |
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| Metal Production: Type Ia vs. Type II Supernovae | |
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| Metals from Galaxies to the ICM: Ejection vs. Extraction | |
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| Metals as Tracers of ICM Pre-heating | |
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| Clusters vs. Field at z = 0 and the Overall Metallicity of the Universe | |
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| Clusters vs. the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Gravitational Lensing by Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Perspective | |
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| Lensing Theory Useful in Cluster Lensing | |
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| Constraining the Cluster Mass Distribution | |
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| Clusters Lenses as Natural Telescopes | |
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| Cosmological Constraints | |
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| Future and Prospects | |
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| References | |
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| The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Cosmology and Cluster Physics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Physics of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect | |
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| Observing the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect | |
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| Cluster Science from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect | |
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| Cosmology from the SZ Effect | |
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| The Next Generation of Instruments | |
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| References | |
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| Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Concise Handbook of Cosmic Structure Formation | |
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| The Mass Function | |
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| Building a Cluster Sample | |
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| Methods to Estimate Cluster Masses | |
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| Constraints on Cosmological Parameters | |
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| The Future | |
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| References | |
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| Clusters and the Theory of the Cosmic Web | |
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| Outline: The Cosmic Web | |
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| Cosmic Structure Formation: From Primordial Quantum Noise to the Cosmic Web | |
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| Hierarchical Structure Formation | |
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| Anisotropic and Weblike Patterns | |
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| Conclusion: Clusters and the Cosmic Web | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Observations and Morphology of the Cosmic Web | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Emergence of the Cosmic Web | |
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| Spatial Structure, Pattern Analysis and Object Identification | |
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| Voids | |
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| Conclusion: Morphology of the Cosmic Web | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |