7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=16&confId=34"><font color=#0000ff>SAIP2014 Proceedings published on 17 April 2015</font></a>

Numerical studies of non-thermal processes in galaxy clusters

9 Jul 2014, 15:20
20m
D Les 204

D Les 204

Oral Presentation Track D1 - Astrophysics Space

Speaker

Mr Remudin Reshid Mekuria (University of the Witwatersrand)

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yes

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

PhD

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Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures consisting of 85 % dark matter, and ~15 % baryons. The hot and dense central parts of galaxy clusters contain an intra-cluster medium of ionized gas, high energy photons, relativistic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, that are manifesting the non-thermal processes taking place in a galaxy cluster. Using numerical simulations we study the non-thermal processes in galaxy clusters.

Based on large number of high resolution dark matter density maps of simulated clusters, we develop analytical models in order to determine the dark matter annihilation flux and predict the gamma-ray emission as well as the cosmic rays distribution in a galaxy clusters.

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Yes

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Sergio Colafrancesco, Sergio.Colafrancesco@wits.ac.za, School of Physics

Primary author

Mr Remudin Reshid Mekuria (University of the Witwatersrand)

Co-authors

Dr Andreas Faltenbacher (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)

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