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英仙座星系团核心的弱激波

The Weak Shock in the Core of the Perseus Cluster

J. Graham, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Sanders

摘要:

声波和弱激波的能量耗散是将活动星系核活动耦合到周围的团内介质(ICM),从而抵消团核冷却的最有希望的机制之一。我们提出了一个详细的分析,发现在深钱德拉观测英仙座集群核心的弱冲击。对冲击波阵面两侧的谱进行比较表明,它们非常相似。通过对包含激波的扇区进行解投影分析,我们得到了激波前沿的温度和密度分布。这些数据没有显示出温度跃变与密度跃变同时发生的证据。为了理解这一结果,我们使用1D流体动力学模拟来模拟冲击波的形成,包括热传导和伽马< 5/3气体的模型。这些模型与数据并不吻合,这表明需要进一步的物理学来解释冲击波的结构。我们认为,冲击波和H-α细丝之间的相互作用可能对冷却冲击波后气体产生重大影响。我们还计算了弱激波释放的热能。冲击区的总能量约为气泡膨胀所需功的3.5倍,冲击的功率约为每个气泡6 × 1044 erg/s,总能量略高于1045 erg/s。

英文摘要:

The dissipation of energy from sound waves and weak shocks is one of the most promising mechanisms for coupling AGN activity to the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM), and so offsetting cooling in cluster cores. We present a detailed analysis of the weak shock found in deep Chandra observations of the Perseus cluster core. A comparison of the spectra either side of the shock front shows that they are very similar. By performing a deprojection analysis of a sector containing the shock, we produce temperature and density profiles across the shock front. These show no evidence for a temperature jump coincident with the density jump. To understand this result, we model the shock formation using 1D hydrodynamic simulations including models with thermal conduction and gamma < 5/3 gas. These models do not agree well with the data, suggesting that further physics is needed to explain the shock structure. We suggest that an interaction between the shock and the H-alpha filaments could have a significant effect on cooling the post-shock gas. We also calculate the thermal energy liberated by the weak shock. The total energy in the shocked region is about 3.5 times the work needed to inflate the bubbles adiabatically, and the power of the shock is around 6x10^44 erg/s per bubble, just over 10^45 erg/s in total.

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