AGN in Clusters of Galaxies: Feedback, Sloshing, and Lobe Bending
Abstract
In a number of nearby clusters of galaxies, recent X-ray observations have revealed the detailed interaction of AGN radio jets and lobes with the intracluster medium. These AGN provide feedback to their host galaxies and surrounding clusters, and significantly affect their evolution. Sloshing of cluster cores, related to off-axis cluster or group mergers, may distort the AGN's radio lobes, sometimes resulting in a "bent" shape. I will discuss detailed, nearby AGN/cluster interactions as well as describe a high-redshift cluster survey being conducted in the optical and IR using distorted radio sources as signposts. This sample will yield hundreds of high-z clusters with central, active galaxies allowing us to study feedback in distant systems.
- Publication:
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Half a Century of X-ray Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- September 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012hcxa.confE..63B