Dr Alastair Edge (University of Durham)

Cooling Flows: my part in their downsizing - Alastair Edge Colloquium

ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre

Abstract

The debate about the fate of the hot gas that cools
rapidly in the cores of clusters, groups and elliptical galaxies
has raged for 2 decades. The turn of the last decade saw
a dramatic shift in the X-ray evidence for massive cooling flows
but the first general detection of cold molecular gas in them.
I will review the past, present and future of the cooling flow
and attempt to demonstrate that all parties in the debate
have been both right AND wrong (even myself!).