Fossil group

Fossil group

Fossil Galaxy Groups, fossil Groups, or fossil clusters are believed to be the end-result of galaxy merging within a normal galaxy group, leaving behind the X-ray halo. Galaxies within a group interact and merge. The physical process behind this galaxy-galaxy merger is the Dynamical friction. The time-scales for dynamical friction on luminous (or L*) galaxies suggest that fossil groups are old, undisturbed systems that have seen little infall of L* galaxies since their initial collapse. Fossil groups are thus an important laboratory for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and the intragroup medium in an isolated system.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4423651.stm Fossil galaxies 'eat neighbours']
* [http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_040705.html Concentrated Dark Matter at the Cores of Fossil Galaxies]
* [http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMCFFOFGLE_index_0.html A fossil galaxy cluster]


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