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Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals (2015)
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Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W. R., Machacek, M., Randall, S., Jones, C., Churazov, E., & Kokotanekova, R. (2015). Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals. The Astrophysical journal, 806(1), Article ARTN 103. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/103

Elliptical cluster galaxies are progressively stripped of their atmospheres due to their motion through the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Deep X-ray observations reveal the fine-structure of the galaxy's remnant atmosphere and its gas tail and wake. Th... Read More about Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals.

Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: II. Stirred, but mixed? Viscous and inviscid gas stripping of the Virgo elliptical M89 (2015)
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Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W. R., Machacek, M., Randall, S., Jones, C., Churazov, E., & Kokotanekova, R. (2015). Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: II. Stirred, but mixed? Viscous and inviscid gas stripping of the Virgo elliptical M89. The Astrophysical journal, 806(1), 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/104

Elliptical galaxies moving through the intra-cluster medium (ICM) are progressively stripped of their gaseous atmospheres. X-ray observations reveal the structure of galactic tails, wakes, and the interface between the galactic gas and the ICM. This... Read More about Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: II. Stirred, but mixed? Viscous and inviscid gas stripping of the Virgo elliptical M89.

Star formation in shocked cluster spirals and their tails (2014)
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Roediger, E., Brüggen, M., Owers, M. S., Ebeling, H., & Sun, M. (2014). Star formation in shocked cluster spirals and their tails. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 443(1), L114-L118. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu087

Recent observations of ram pressure stripped spiral galaxies in clusters revealed details of the stripping process, i.e., the truncation of all interstellar medium (ISM) phases and of star formation (SF) in the disk, and multiphase star-forming tails... Read More about Star formation in shocked cluster spirals and their tails.

The narrow X-ray tail and double Hα tails of ESO 137-002 in A3627 (2013)
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Zhang, B., Sun, M., Ji, L., Sarazin, C., Lin, X. B., Nulsen, P. E. J., Roediger, E., Donahue, M., Forman, W., Jones, C., Voit, G. M., & Kong, X. (2013). The narrow X-ray tail and double Hα tails of ESO 137-002 in A3627. The Astrophysical journal, 777(2), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/777/2/122

We present the analysis of a deep Chandra observation of a ~2 L * late-type galaxy, ESO 137-002, in the closest rich cluster A3627. The Chandra data reveal a long (gsim40 kpc) and narrow tail with a nearly constant width (~3 kpc) to the southeast of... Read More about The narrow X-ray tail and double Hα tails of ESO 137-002 in A3627.

Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas (2013)
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Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Brüggen, M., & Kokotanekova, R. (2013). Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(2), 1721-1740. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1691

Transport coefficients in highly ionised plasmas like the intra-cluster medium (ICM) are still ill-constrained. They influence various processes, among them the mixing at shear flow interfaces due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The observ... Read More about Viscous Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in highly ionised plasmas.

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity (2013)
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Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Forman, W. R., E. J. Nulsen, P., & Churazov, E. (2013). Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity. The Astrophysical journal, 764(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/60

Sloshing cold fronts (CFs) arise from minor merger triggered gas sloshing. Their detailed structure depends on the properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM): hydrodynamical simulations predict the CFs to be distorted by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilit... Read More about Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity.