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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 369, Issue 1, Pages 36-41Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010094
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magnetic fields; galaxies : clusters : general
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We use cosmological, magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters to quantify the dynamical importance of magnetic fields in these clusters. The set-up of initial magnetic field strengths at high redshifts is chosen such that observed Faraday-rotation measurements in low-redshift clusters are well reproduced in the simulations. We compute the radial profiles of the intracluster gas temperature and of the thermal and magnetic pressure in a set of clusters simulated in the framework of an Einstein-de Sitter and a low-density, spatially-Aat CDM cosmological model. We find that, for a realistic range of initial magnetic field strengths, the temperature of the intracluster gas changes by less than approximate to5%.
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