Journal
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 215, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-018-0572-8
Keywords
Galaxy clusters; Intracluster matter
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Funding
- Women In Science Excel (WISE) programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Funds for the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology under MEXT, Japan
- Core Research for Energetic Universe in Hiroshima University (the MEXT program for promoting the enhancement of research universities, Japan)
- ESO's Directorate for Science
- NWO via a Veni grant
- NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- NASA
- ASI-INAF [2017-14-H.0]
- [NARO15 ASI-INAF I/037/12/0]
- [ASI 2015-046-R.0]
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As the largest virialized structures in the universe, galaxy clusters continue to grow and accrete matter from the cosmic web. Due to the low gas density in the outskirts of clusters, measurements are very challenging, requiring extremely sensitive telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Observations using X-rays, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, and weak lensing and galaxy distributions from the optical band, have over the last decade helped to unravel this exciting new frontier of cluster astrophysics, where the infall and virialization of matter takes place. Here, we review the current state of the art in our observational and theoretical understanding of cluster outskirts, and discuss future prospects for exploration using newly planned and proposed observatories.
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