"XRISM’s View of Galaxy Clusters: New Insights and Recent Progress"
Special HEA Seminar
- Date: Nov 14, 2025
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Congyao Zhang (Masaryk University, The University of Chicago)
- Location: MPA
- Room: Room A006, Downstairs
- Host: Eugene Churazov
- Contact: churazov@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE
Abstract:
The recently launched XRISM X-ray observatory has opened a new era of galaxy cluster studies by providing long-awaited, high-resolution spectral mapping. With its ability to directly probe the kinematics of hot gas, XRISM offers crucial insights into energy circulation driven by supermassive black hole feedback and cluster mergers - key processes shaping the intracluster medium and large-scale structures of the Universe. In this talk, I will present a series of ongoing projects targeting the Perseus Cluster, A2029, and A1914, and highlight our latest findings on AGN feedback, turbulence, and nonthermal pressure.
The recently launched XRISM X-ray observatory has opened a new era of galaxy cluster studies by providing long-awaited, high-resolution spectral mapping. With its ability to directly probe the kinematics of hot gas, XRISM offers crucial insights into energy circulation driven by supermassive black hole feedback and cluster mergers - key processes shaping the intracluster medium and large-scale structures of the Universe. In this talk, I will present a series of ongoing projects targeting the Perseus Cluster, A2029, and A1914, and highlight our latest findings on AGN feedback, turbulence, and nonthermal pressure.