| N-Body/Hydrodynamical Simulations of Merging Clusters of Galaxies |
| Sándor Molnár |
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Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan |
| Merging of clusters of galaxies, the most massive collapsed objects in the Universe, are the most energetic events since the Big Bang. Cluster mergers provide independent methods to test ΛCDM models, and study baryonic and dark matter under extreme environment. Merging clusters can also be used to study the nature of dark matter and constrain the self-scattering cross section of dark matter particles. I review the different simulation methods to study merging clusters. I focus on modeling individual merging clusters using dedicated N-Body/hydrodynamical simulations, and present some applications. |