Randall, Scott
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffX-ray astronomy; High-energy astrophysics; Galaxy clusters and groups; AGN feedback
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Wesleyan University
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Hu, Zhensong, Su, Yuanyuan, Li, Zhiyuan, Hess, Kelley M., Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, William R., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Sridhar, Sarrvesh S., Stroe, Andra, Baek, Junhyun, Chung, Aeree, Grupe, Dirk, Chen, Hao, Irwin, Jimmy A., Jones, Christine, Randall, Scott W., and Roediger, Elke. 2023. "AMUSE-Antlia. I. Nuclear X-Ray Properties of Early-type Galaxies in a Dynamically Young Galaxy Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 956 104. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf292. 2023
- Watson, Courtney B., Blanton, Elizabeth L., Randall, Scott W., Sarazin, Craig L., Sarkar, Arnab, ZuHone, John A., and Douglass, E. M. 2023. "CHANDRA X-Ray Observations of A119: Cold Fronts and a Shock in an Evolved Off-axis Merger." The Astrophysical Journal, 955 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acee74. 2023
- Sarkar, Arnab, Randall, Scott, Su, Yuanyuan, Alvarez, Gabriella E., Sarazin, Craig L., Jones, Christine, Blanton, Elizabeth, Nulsen, Paul, Chakraborty, Priyanka, Bulbul, Esra, Zuhone, John, Andrade-Santos, Felipe, and Johnson, Ryan E. 2023. "Gas Sloshing and Cold Fronts in Pre-merging Galaxy Cluster A98." The Astrophysical Journal, 944 132. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acae9f. 2023
- Finner, Kyle, Randall, Scott W., Jee, M. James, Blanton, Elizabeth L., Cho, Hyejeon, Clarke, Tracy E., Giacintucci, Simona, Nulsen, Paul, and van Weeren, Reinout. 2023. "Hubble Space Telescope and Hyper-Suprime-Cam Weak-lensing Study of the Equal-mass Dissociative Merger CIZA J0107.7 5408." The Astrophysical Journal, 942 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9fd3. 2023
- Ubertosi, F., Gitti, M., Brighenti, F., McDonald, M., Nulsen, P., Donahue, M., Brunetti, G., Randall, Scott, Gaspari, M., Ettori, S., Calzadilla, M., Ignesti, A., Feretti, L., and Blanton, E. L. 2023. "Multiple Shock Fronts in RBS 797: The Chandra Window on Shock Heating in Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 944 216. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acacf9. 2023
- Sarkar, Arnab, Randall, Scott, Su, Yuanyuan, Alvarez, Gabriella E., Sarazin, Craig, Nulsen, Paul, Blanton, Elizabeth, Forman, William, Jones, Christine, Bulbul, Esra, Zuhone, John, Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Johnson, Ryan E., and Chakraborty, Priyanka. 2022. "Discovery of a Premerger Shock in an Intercluster Filament in Abell 98." The Astrophysical Journal, 935 L23. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac86d4. 2022
- Ubertosi, F., Gitti, M., Brighenti, F., Brunetti, G., McDonald, M., Nulsen, Paul, McNamara, B., Randall, Scott, Forman, William, Donahue, M., Ignesti, A., Gaspari, M., Ettori, S., Feretti, L., Blanton, E. L., Jones, C., and Calzadilla, M. 2021. "The Deepest Chandra View of RBS 797: Evidence for Two Pairs of Equidistant X-ray Cavities." The Astrophysical Journal, 923 L25. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac374c. 2021
- Lovisari, Lorenzo, Schellenberger, Gerrit, Sereno, Mauro, Ettori, Stefano, Pratt, Gabriel W., Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Randall, Scott, and Kraft, Ralph. 2020. "X-Ray Scaling Relations for a Representative Sample of Planck-selected Clusters Observed with XMM-Newton." The Astrophysical Journal, 892 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7997. 2020
- Di Mascolo, Luca, Mroczkowski, Tony, Churazov, Eugene, Markevitch, Maxim, Basu, Kaustuv, Clarke, Tracy E., Devlin, Mark, Mason, Brian S., Randall, Scott W., Reese, Erik D., Sunyaev, Rashid, and Wik, Daniel R. 2019. "An ALMA ACA measurement of the shock in the Bullet Cluster." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 628 A100. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936184. 2019
- Di Gennaro, Gabriella, van Weeren, Reinout J., Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Akamatsu, H., Randall, Scott W., Forman, William R., Kraft, Ralph P., Brunetti, G., Dawson, W. A., Golovich, N., and Jones, Christine. 2019. "Evidence for a Merger-induced Shock Wave in ZwCl 0008.8 5215 with Chandra and Suzaku." The Astrophysical Journal, 873 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab03cd. 2019
- Su, Y., Kraft, Ralph P., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Jones, C., Maccarone, T. J., Mernier, F., Lovisari, Lorenzo, Sheardown, A., Randall, Scott W., Roediger, E., Fish, T. M., Forman, William R., and Churazov, Eugene. 2019. "Extended X-Ray Study of M49: The Frontier of the Virgo Cluster." The Astronomical Journal, 158 6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1d51. 2019
- Douglass, E. M., Blanton, E. L., Randall, Scott W., Clarke, T. E., Edwards, L. O. V., Sabry, Z., and ZuHone, John A. 2018. "The Megaparsec-scale Gas-sloshing Spiral in the Remnant Cool Core Cluster Abell 1763." The Astrophysical Journal, 868 121. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae9e7. 2018
- Su, Yuanyuan, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Irwin, Jimmy A., Randall, Scott W., and Churazov, Eugene. 2017. "Buoyant AGN Bubbles in the Quasi-isothermal Potential of NGC 1399." The Astrophysical Journal, 847 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8954. 2017
- Su, Yuanyuan, Kraft, Ralph P., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Roediger, Elke, Forman, William R., Churazov, Eugene, Randall, Scott W., Jones, Christine, and Machacek, Marie E. 2017. "Capturing the 3D Motion of an Infalling Galaxy via Fluid Dynamics." The Astrophysical Journal, 835 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/19. 2017
- van Weeren, R. J., Ogrean, G. A., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Andrade-Santos, F., Pearce, Connor J. J., Bonafede, A., Brüggen, M., Bulbul, E., Clarke, T. E., Churazov, E., David, L., Dawson, W. A., Donahue, M., Goulding, A., Kraft, R. P., Mason, B., Merten, J., Mroczkowski, T., Nulsen, P. E. J., Rosati, P., Roediger, E., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Umetsu, K. et al. 2017. "Chandra and JVLA Observations of HST Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0717.5 3745." The Astrophysical Journal, 835 197. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/197. 2017
- Su, Yuanyuan, Kraft, Ralph P., Roediger, Elke, Nulsen, Paul, Forman, William R., Churazov, Eugene, Randall, Scott W., Jones, Christine, and Machacek, Marie E. 2017. "Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 1404: Cluster Plasma Physics Revealed by an Infalling Early-type Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal, 834 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/74. 2017
- Su, Yuanyuan, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Kraft, Ralph P., Roediger, Elke, ZuHone, John A., Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Sheardown, Alex, Irwin, Jimmy A., and Randall, Scott W. 2017. "Gas Sloshing Regulates and Records the Evolution of the Fornax Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 851 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa989e. 2017
- Sand, D. J., Seth, A. C., Crnojević, D., Spekkens, K., Strader, J., Adams, E. A. K., Caldwell, Nelson, Guhathakurta, P., Kenney, J., Randall, Scott, Simon, J. D., Toloba, E., and Willman, B. 2017. "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Ultra-compact High Velocity Cloud AGC 226067: A Stripped Remnant in the Virgo Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 843 134. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7557. 2017
- Lovisari, Lorenzo, Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Ettori, Stefano, Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Arnaud, Monique, Démoclès, Jessica, Pratt, Gabriel W., Randall, Scott, and Kraft, Ralph. 2017. "X-Ray Morphological Analysis of the Planck ESZ Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 846 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa855f. 2017
- Ogrean, G. A., van Weeren, R. J., Jones, C., Forman, W., Dawson, W. A., Golovich, N., Andrade-Santos, F., Murray, Stephen S., Nulsen, P., Roediger, E., Zitrin, A., Bulbul, E., Kraft, R., Goulding, A., Umetsu, K., Mroczkowski, T., Bonafede, A., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Churazov, E., David, L., Merten, J., Donahue, M., Mason, B., Rosati, P. et al. 2016. "Frontier Fields Clusters: Deep Chandra Observations of the Complex Merger MACS~J1149.6 2223." The Astrophysical Journal, 819 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/113. 2016
- Kreisch, C. D., Machacek, M. E., Jones, C., and Randall, Scott W. 2016. "Merger Hydrodynamics of the Luminous Cluster RX J1347.5-1145." The Astrophysical Journal, 830 39. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/39. 2016
- Bulbul, Esra, Randall, Scott W., Bayliss, Matthew, Miller, Eric, Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Johnson, Ryan, Bautz, Mark, Blanton, Elizabeth L., Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Paterno-Mahler, Rachel, Murray, Stephen S., Sarazin, Craig L., Smith, Randall K., and Ezer, Cemile. 2016. "Probing the Outskirts of the Early-Stage Galaxy Cluster Merger A1750." The Astrophysical Journal, 818 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/131. 2016
- Franse, Jeroen, Bulbul, Esra, Foster, Adam, Boyarsky, Alexey, Markevitch, Maxim, Bautz, Mark, Iakubovskyi, Dmytro, Loewenstein, Mike, McDonald, Michael, Miller, Eric, Randall, Scott W., Ruchayskiy, Oleg, and Smith, Randall K. 2016. "Radial Profile of the 3.5 keV Line Out to R200 in the Perseus Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 829 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/124. 2016
- Bulbul, Esra, Markevitch, Maxim, Foster, Adam, Miller, Eric, Bautz, Mark, Loewenstein, Mike, Randall, Scott W., and Smith, Randall K. 2016. "Searching for the 3.5 keV Line in the Stacked Suzaku Observations of Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 831 55. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/55. 2016
- van Weeren, R. J., Ogrean, G. A., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Andrade-Santos, F., Bonafede, A., Brüggen, M., Bulbul, E., Clarke, T. E., Churazov, E., David, L., Dawson, W. A., Donahue, M., Goulding, A., Kraft, R. P., Mason, B., Merten, J., Mroczkowski, T., Murray, Stephen S., Nulsen, P. E. J., Rosati, P., Roediger, E., Randall, Scott W., Sayers, J., Umetsu, K. et al. 2016. "The Discovery of Lensed Radio and X-Ray Sources behind the Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0717.5 3745 with the JVLA and Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal, 817 98. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/98. 2016
- Randall, Scott W., Nulsen, P. E. J., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Bulbul, E., Clarke, T. E., Kraft, R., Blanton, E. L., David, L., Werner, N., Sun, M., Donahue, M., Giacintucci, S., and Simionescu, A. 2015. "A Very Deep Chandra Observation of the Galaxy Group NGC 5813: AGN Shocks, Feedback, and Outburst History." The Astrophysical Journal, 805 112. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/112. 2015
- Ogrean, G. A., van Weeren, R. J., Jones, C., Clarke, T. E., Sayers, J., Mroczkowski, T., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W., Murray, Stephen S., Pandey-Pommier, M., Randall, Scott W., Churazov, E., Bonafede, A., Kraft, R., David, L., Andrade-Santos, F., Merten, J., Zitrin, A., Umetsu, K., Goulding, A., Roediger, E., Bagchi, J., Bulbul, E., Donahue, M., Ebeling, H. et al. 2015. "Frontier Fields Clusters: Chandra and JVLA View of the Pre-merging Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403." The Astrophysical Journal, 812 153. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/153. 2015
- Mroczkowski, T., Kovács, A., Bulbul, E., Staguhn, J., Benford, D. J., Clarke, T. E., van Weeren, R. J., Intema, H. T., and Randall, Scott W. 2015. "Resolving the Merging Planck Cluster PLCK G147.3-16.6 with GISMO." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 808 L6. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/808/1/L6. 2015
- Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W. R., Machacek, M., Randall, Scott W., Jones, C., Churazov, E., and Kokotanekova, R. 2015. "Stripped Elliptical Galaxies as Probes of ICM Physics: I. Tails, Wakes, and Flow Patterns in and Around Stripped Ellipticals." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 103. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/103. 2015
- Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W. R., Machacek, M., Randall, Scott W., Jones, C., Churazov, E., and Kokotanekova, R. 2015. "Stripped Elliptical Galaxies as Probes of ICM Physics: II. Stirred, but Mixed? Viscous and Inviscid Gas Stripping of the Virgo Elliptical M89." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/104. 2015
- Bulbul, Esra, Markevitch, Maxim, Foster, Adam, Smith, Randall K., Loewenstein, Michael, and Randall, Scott W. 2014. "Detection of an Unidentified Emission Line in the Stacked X-Ray Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 789 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/13. 2014
- Paterno-Mahler, R., Randall, Scott W., Bulbul, E., Andrade-Santos, F., Blanton, E. L., Jones, C., Murray, S., and Johnson, R. E. 2014. "Merger Signatures in the Galaxy Cluster A98." The Astrophysical Journal, 791 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/104. 2014
- Bogdán, Ákos, van Weeren, Reinout J., Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, William R., Randall, Scott W., Giacintucci, Simona, Churazov, Eugene, O'Dea, Christopher P., Baum, Stefi A., Noell-Storr, Jacob, and Jones, Christine. 2014. "Young AGN Outburst Running over Older X-Ray Cavities." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 782 L19. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/782/2/L19. 2014
- Clarke, T. E., Randall, Scott W., Sarazin, C. L., Blanton, E. L., and Giacintucci, S. 2013. "Chandra View of the Ultra-steep Spectrum Radio Source in A2443: Merger Shock-induced Compression of Fossil Radio Plasma?" The Astrophysical Journal, 772 84. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/772/2/84. 2013
- Paterno-Mahler, R., Blanton, E. L., Randall, Scott W., and Clarke, T. E. 2013. "Deep Chandra Observations of the Extended Gas Sloshing Spiral in A2029." The Astrophysical Journal, 773 114. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/114. 2013
- Lal, Dharam V., Kraft, Ralph P., Randall, Scott W., Forman, William R., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Roediger, Elke, ZuHone, John A., Hardcastle, Martin J., Jones, Christine, and Croston, Judith H. 2013. "Gas Sloshing and Radio Galaxy Dynamics in the Core of the 3C 449 Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 764 83. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/83. 2013
- Bogdán, Ákos, Forman, William R., Kraft, Ralph P., Jones, Christine, Blom, Christina, Randall, Scott W., Zhang, Zhongli, Zhuravleva, Irina, Churazov, Eugene, Li, Zhiyuan, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Schindler, Sabine. 2012. "Chandra Observations of NGC 4342, an Optically Faint, X-Ray Gas-rich Early-type Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal, 755 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/25. 2012
- Maughan, B. J., Giles, P. A., Randall, Scott W., Jones, C., and Forman, W. R. 2012. "Self-similar scaling and evolution in the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity-temperature relation." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421 1583–1602. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20419.x. 2012
- Owers, Matt S., Couch, Warrick J., Nulsen, Paul E. J., and Randall, Scott W. 2012. "Shocking Tails in the Major Merger Abell 2744." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 750 L23. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/750/1/L23. 2012
- Churazov, E., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Zhuravleva, I., Schekochihin, A., Parrish, I., Sunyaev, R., Forman, W., Böhringer, H., and Randall, Scott W. 2012. "X-ray surface brightness and gas density fluctuations in the Coma cluster." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421 1123–1135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20372.x. 2012
- Bogdán, Ákos, Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Randall, Scott W., Sun, Ming, O'Dea, Christopher P., Churazov, Eugene, and Baum, Stefi A. 2011. "Chandra and ROSAT Observations of A194: Detection of an X-Ray Cavity and Mapping the Dynamics of the Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 743, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/59. 2011
- Blanton, E. L., Randall, Scott W., Clarke, T. E., Sarazin, C. L., McNamara, B. R., Douglass, E. M., and McDonald, M. 2011. "A Very Deep Chandra Observation of A2052: Bubbles, Shocks, and Sloshing." The Astrophysical Journal, 737, (2) 99. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/99. 2011
- Machacek, Marie E., Jerius, Diab, Kraft, Ralph, Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Randall, Scott W., Giacintucci, Simona, and Sun, Ming. 2011. "Deep Chandra Observations of Edges and Bubbles in the NGC 5846 Galaxy Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 743, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/15. 2011
- Randall, Scott W., Forman, William R., Giacintucci, Simona, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Sun, M., Jones, C., Churazov, Eugene, David, L. P., Kraft, R., Donahue, M., Blanton, E. L., Simionescu, A., and Werner, N. 2011. "Shocks and Cavities from Multiple Outbursts in the Galaxy Group NGC 5813: A Window to Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback." The Astrophysical Journal, 726 86. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/726/2/86. 2011
- Owers, Matt S., Randall, Scott W., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Couch, Warrick J., David, Laurence P., and Kempner, Joshua C. 2011. "The Dissection of Abell 2744: A Rich Cluster Growing Through Major and Minor Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal, 728, (1) 27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/27. 2011
- Douglass, E. M., Blanton, Elizabeth L., Clarke, T. E., Randall, Scott W., and Wing, Joshua D. 2011. "The Merger Environment of the Wide Angle Tail Hosting Cluster A562." The Astrophysical Journal, 743, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/199. 2011
- Randall, Scott W., Clarke, T. E., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Owers, M. S., Sarazin, C. L., Forman, William R., and Murray, Stephen S. 2010. "Radio and Deep Chandra Observations of the Disturbed Cool Core Cluster Abell 133." The Astrophysical Journal, 722, (1) 825–846. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/825. 2010
- Machacek, M. E., O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Randall, Scott W., Jones, C., and Forman, William R. 2010. "The Mysterious Merger of NGC 6868 and NGC 6861 in the Telescopium Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 711 1316–1332. 2010
- Randall, Scott W., Jones, C., Markevitch, Maxim, Blanton, E. L., Nulsen, Paul E. J., and Forman, William R. 2009. "Gas Sloshing and Bubbles in the Galaxy Group NGC 5098." The Astrophysical Journal, 700 1404–1414. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1404. 2009
- Blanton, E. L., Randall, Scott W., Douglass, E. M., Sarazin, C. L., Clarke, T. E., and McNamara, B. R. 2009. "Shocks and Bubbles in a Deep Chandra Observation of the Cooling Flow Cluster Abell 2052." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 697 L95–L98. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/L95. 2009
- Randall, Scott W., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Forman, William R., Jones, C., Machacek, M., Murray, Stephen S., and Maughan, B. 2008. "Chandra's View of the Ram Pressure Stripped Galaxy M86." The Astrophysical Journal, 688 208–223. 2008
- Randall, Scott W., Markevitch, Maxim, Clowe, Douglas, Gonzalez, Anthony H., and Bradac, Marusa. 2008. "Constraints on the Self-Interaction Cross Section of Dark Matter from Numerical Simulations of the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E 0657-56." The Astrophysical Journal, 679 1173–1180. 2008
- Wik, Daniel R., Sarazin, Craig L., Ricker, Paul M., and Randall, Scott W. 2008. "The Impact of Galaxy Cluster Mergers on Cosmological Parameter Estimation from Surveys of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect." The Astrophysical Journal, 680 17–31. 2008
- Clowe, D., Randall, Scott W., and Markevitch, Maxim. 2007. "Catching a bullet: direct evidence for the existence of dark matter." Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, 173 28–31. 2007
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