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Ram pressure stripping of disk galaxies in galaxy clusters

Elke Roediger

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Abstract While galaxies move through the intracluster medium of their host cluster, they experience a ram pressure which removes at least a significant part of their interstellar medium. This ram pressure stripping appears to be especially important for spiral galaxies: this scenario is a good candidate to explain the differences observed between cluster spirals in the nearby universe and their field counterparts. Thus, ram pressure stripping of disk galaxies in clusters has been studied intensively during the last decade. I review advances made in this area, concentrating on theoretical work, but continuously comparing to observations (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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Key concepts: Ram pressure, Intracluster medium, Astrophysics, Physics, Stripping (fiber), Galaxy cluster, Cluster (spacecraft), Galaxy