Is there a giant Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the sloshing cold front of the Perseus cluster?

Deep observations of nearby galaxy clusters with Chandra have revealed concave ‘bay’ structures in a number of systems (Perseus, Centaurus and Abell 1795), which have similar X-ray and radio properties. These bays have all the properties of cold fronts, where the temperature rises and density falls...

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Main Authors: Walker, S., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Gendron-Marsolais, M., Fabian, A., Intema, Hubertus, Sanders, J., Bamford, J., van Weeren, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74507