Evolution of Groups and Clusters of Galaxies with Athena
Abstract
The Athena mission will implement the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme which poses the question of "How does ordinary matter assemble into the large-scale structures we see today?". Groups and Galaxy clusters are key laboratories to understand the role of the various physical processes governing the baryonic matter from the kilo-parsec scale of super-massive black holes to the mega-parsec one of the clusters outskirts on assembling and evolving large scale structures. I will focus on the study of the galaxy groups and clusters evolution with the Athena mission. We will review the status of current constraints and will discuss the perceptives out to the mission launch time in 2028.
- Publication:
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Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe: The first scientific conference dedicated to the Athena X-ray observatory
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015eheu.conf...13P