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Abell 2382的团内磁场功率谱

The intracluster magnetic field power spectrum in Abell 2382

D. Guidetti, M. Murgia, F. Govoni, P. Parma, L. Gregorini, H. R. de Ruiter, R. A. Cameron, R. Fanti

摘要:

这项工作的目标是把约束的强度和结构的磁场在星系团A2382。我们研究了团簇中的磁场和法拉第旋转效应之间的关系,使用数值模拟作为所观察到的偏振特性的参考。为此,我们在20厘米和6厘米的两个极化无线电源嵌入在A2382的甚大阵列的观测,我们获得了详细的旋转测量图像。我们模拟了具有不同功率谱的随机三维磁场模型,从而产生合成旋转测量图像。通过将我们的模拟与观测到的射电源的极化特性进行比较,我们可以确定最能再现观测结果的集群内磁场波动的强度和功率谱。的数据是一致的幂律磁场功率谱与柯尔莫哥洛夫指数$n=11/3$,而外部尺度的磁场波动的顺序为35千秒差距。在集群中心的平均磁场强度约为3 $μ$ G,并在外部区域作为电子气密度的平方根而减小。中心1 Mpc $^{3}$中的平均磁场强度约为1 $μ$ G。

英文摘要:

The goal of this work is to put constraints on the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the cluster of galaxies A2382. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field and Faraday rotation effects in the cluster, using numerical simulations as a reference for the observed polarization properties. For this purpose we present Very Large Array observations at 20 cm and 6 cm of two polarized radio sources embedded in A2382, and we obtained detailed rotation measure images for both of them. We simulated random three-dimensional magnetic field models with different power spectra and thus produced synthetic rotation measure images. By comparing our simulations with the observed polarization properties of the radio sources, we can determine the strength and the power spectrum of intra-cluster magnetic field fluctuations that best reproduce the observations. The data are consistent with a power law magnetic field power spectrum with the Kolmogorov index $n=11/3$, while the outer scale of the magnetic field fluctuations is of the order of 35 kpc. The average magnetic field strength at the cluster center is about 3 $μ$G and decreases in the external region as the square root of the electron gas density. The average magnetic field strength in the central 1 Mpc$^{3}$ is about 1 $μ$G.

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