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A chemical evolution model for galaxy clusters

L. Portinari, A. Moretti, C. Chiosi

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0108077

Abstract

We develop a toy-model for the chemical evolution of the intracluster medium, polluted by the galactic winds from elliptical galaxies. The model follows the "galaxy formation history" of cluster galaxies, constrained by the observed luminosity function.

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