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团簇射电晕中新的标度关系和再加速模型

New scaling relations in cluster radio halos and the re-acceleration model

R. Cassano, G. Brunetti, G. Setti, F. Govoni, K. Dolag

摘要:

本文在再加速方案的框架下,导出了具有巨射电晕的星系团的新的期望标度关系,即:射电功率(P_R)与射电发射区大小(R_H),P_R与发射区总质量(M_H)和速度色散(σ_H)。我们搜索这些相关性分析最近的无线电和X射线数据在文献中的一个著名的样本集群与巨型无线电晕。特别地,我们发现P_R和R_H之间有很好的相关性,M_H和R_H之间有非常紧密的“几何”标度。根据这些相关性,P_R也预期与M_H和sigma_H成比例,这通过我们的分析得到证实。我们表明,在射电晕体积中的平均磁场强度随M_H略有变化的情况下,所有观测到的趋势都能与预期的很好地协调。还发现了R_H和σ_H之间的副产物相关性,并可通过光学研究进一步验证。此外,我们还发现,在观测上,R_H与主团簇的维里半径成非线性比例,这直接意味着团簇体积中的射电辐射部分随团簇质量的增加而增加,因此团簇中的非热分量不是自相似的。

英文摘要:

In this paper we derive new expected scaling relations for clusters with giant radio halos in the framework of the re-acceleration scenario in a simplified, but physically motivated, form, namely: radio power (P_R) vs size of the radio emitting region (R_H), and P_R vs total cluster mass (M_H) contained in the emitting region and cluster velocity dispersion (sigma_H) in this region. We search for these correlations by analyzing the most recent radio and X-ray data available in the literature for a well known sample of clusters with giant radio halos. In particular we find a good correlation between P_R and R_H and a very tight ``geometrical'' scaling between M_H and R_H. From these correlations P_R is also expected to scale with M_H and sigma_H and this is confirmed by our analysis. We show that all the observed trends can be well reconciled with expectations in the case of a slight variation of the mean magnetic field strength in the radio halo volume with M_H. A byproduct correlation between R_H and sigma_H is also found, and can be further tested by optical studies. In addition, we find that observationally R_H scales non-linearly with the virial radius of the host cluster, and this immediately means that the fraction of the cluster volume which is radio emitting increases with cluster mass and thus that the non-thermal component in clusters is not self-similar.

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