The PICO-Cluster Project: presenting the galaxy cluster sample and studying magnetic field growth, Faraday rotation and Braginskii heating

arXiv:2606.23798 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-06-22 · Read on arXiv

Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer, Ewald Puchwein, Rosie Talbot, Rüdiger Pakmor, Lorenzo Perrone, Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel, Joseph Whittingham, Larissa Tevlin, Niklas Dusch, Martin Sparre

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-06-22

Comments: 33 pages, 20 figures, submitted to MNRAS, project webpage available at http://pico-cluster.aip.de/

Project page: http://pico-cluster.aip.de

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 53× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 43× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 22× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anisotropy — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accretion Shock — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Matter Power Spectrum — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Coherence Length — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cold front — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Regions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropic Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Galaxy Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Robust magnetic field estimates in star-forming galaxies with the equipartition formula in the absence of equipartition
• Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part II. Bright Galaxy Survey and Emission-Line Galaxies
• Simulating realistic radio morphologies of Fanaroff-Riley I jets in a self-regulating cool-core cluster
• Identifying heating processes in simulations with an entropy-based scheme: A single jet episode in a galaxy cluster
• Characterizing turbulence in galaxy clusters: Defining turbulent energies and assessing multi-scale versus fixed-scale filters
• Simulating cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies - II. A unified scheme for radio halos and relics with predictions of the gamma-ray emission
• Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray scaling relations of galaxies, groups and clusters in the IllustrisTNG simulations
• Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part I. Luminous Red Galaxies
• Zooming in on radio relics -- II. How relic morphology probes density fluctuations at the edge of galaxy clusters

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