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受星系团影响的螺旋星系NGC 4254 - II中的磁场和气体。磁场结构

Magnetic fields and gas in the cluster-influenced spiral galaxy NGC 4254 - II. Structures of magnetic fields

Krzysztof T. Chyzy

摘要:

本文利用磁图研究了室女星系团螺旋星系NGC 4254中不对称射电偏振辐射的起源和磁场的性质。磁图显示了整个星系中不同磁场分量的分布,不考虑法拉第旋转和投影效应。我们表明,整个星系的磁场矢量(从0度到40度以上)的方向的戏剧性变化不能单独从发电机过程中产生,但必须由密度波和当地的气体流动的影响,如占主导地位。我们在星系内确定了总磁场强度与局部恒星形成率(SFR)之间的关系,其指数为+0.18+-0.01。我们发现磁场规则性与SFR(-0.32+-0.03)的关系是相反的,并认为这是由于在活跃的恒星形成区,随着湍流的增加,随机场的有效产生。NGC 4254中法拉第旋转测量的分布表明扰动轴对称平均场发电机模式或轴对称和双对称模式的混合物,其规则场指向盘外,这与大多数观测到的星系相反。两个外磁臂(向密度波下游移动)内的磁场很强,在常规磁场中高达13 μ G,在总磁场中高达20 μ G。我们的集群对不同的磁场分量的影响的建模表明,在外部磁臂的电机感应磁场修改的拉伸和剪切力,而不是集群冲压压力。这些力可能是由星系的引力相互作用触发的,它们产生了规则场的各向异性分量,并增强了偏振发射。(节略)

英文摘要:

The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission and properties of magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC4254 are investigated with help of "magnetic maps" presenting distributions of different magnetic field components over the entire galaxy, free of Faraday rotation and projection effects. We show that the dramatic variation of orientation of magnetic field vectors (from 0deg to more than 40deg) throughout the galaxy cannot arise from the dynamo process alone, but must be dominated by the effects like density waves and local gas flows. We determine within the galaxy the relation between the strength of total magnetic field and the local star-formation rate (SFR) as a power-law with an index of +0.18+-0.01. We find the opposite sense of relation of magnetic field regularity with SFR (-0.32+-0.03) and suggest that it results from efficient production of random field with rising turbulence in the regions with actively forming stars. The distribution of Faraday rotation measures in NGC4254 indicates a perturbed axisymmetrical mean-field dynamo mode or a mixture of axisymmetrical and bisymmetrical ones with regular field directed outwards the disk, which is contrary to most observed galaxies. The magnetic fields within two outer magnetic arms (shifted downstream of a density wave) are strong, up to 13muG in the regular field and 20muG in the total field. Our modeling of cluster influence on different magnetic field components indicates that within the outer magnetic arms the dynamo-induced magnetic fields are modified by stretching and shearing forces rather than by cluster ram pressure. Those forces, which are likely triggered by the galaxy's gravitational interaction, produce an anisotropic component of the regular field and enhance the polarized emission.(abridged)

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