… form by merging and smooth accretion. This model predicts that numerous galaxy clusters
are in some stage of merging at any epoch. During this merging process the gravitational …

… The extremely successful session on mergers in clusters of galaxies … the cluster
phenomenology, but mainly those aspects related to the merger processes: the physics of cluster …

… galaxy clusters and follow how stars become unbound from galaxies during the evolution of
clusters … DSC released in the merging processes leading to the formation of the cluster BCG …

… merger tree of the selected galaxy clusters tracking all the dark matter particles that belong to
a given cluster … in these processes, all the events are classified as minor mergers. In the left-…

… Overview of the Merging Process To set the stage for describing the merging process, we …
We described the merging process in our sample clusters as follows (see Figures 2 and 3). (a) …

… that statistics sensitive to the cluster formation process, such as cluster abundance and …
scale peaks within a cluster-scale peak during mergers result in relaxation processes and energy …

… light in galaxy clusters; deep imaging of clusters is beginning to … processes are not totally
efficient, however, and leave signatures behind that identify the violence of the merging process…

… Taken together, the observational and simulation results indicate that cool core–related
phenomena—not merging processes—are the primary contributor to scatter in scaling relations. …

… This cluster-merging process … -cluster merging in the star formation histories of galaxies, we
assume (1) that only the group has a disk galaxy and (2) that neither the group nor the cluster …

… We study some of the physical processes that affect galaxies within a group … the cluster
whose orbits are assigned to model galaxies). Initially, we study the merger of a group and cluster …