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冷却流团的宇宙学MHD模拟

Cosmological MHD simulation of a cooling flow cluster

Y. Dubois, R. Teyssier

摘要:

对星系团内介质(ICM)磁场的各种观测(大多数时间仅限于星系团核心)都指向几个microG量级的磁场强度(来自射电遗迹和射电晕的同步辐射、X射线中的逆康普顿辐射和偏振背景源的法拉第旋转测量)。星系团磁场的起源和空间结构仍有争议。特别是,磁场的径向轮廓,从核心的集群到他们的外围,是非常重要的宇宙射线在宇宙网络中的传播。在这封信中,我们强调冷却过程的重要性,在放大磁场的核心星系团高达一个数量级以上的典型放大获得的纯绝热演化。我们使用AMR程序RAMSES中新开发的MHD求解器对一个3 keV的星系团进行了“变焦”宇宙学模拟,包括暗物质和气体动力学、原子冷却、紫外加热和恒星形成。磁场放大主要通过引力收缩进行。湍流引起的剪切运动在星系团的外围提供了额外的放大,而合并期间的磁重联会导致核心中的磁场消散。冷却过程对团簇的磁场结构有很大的影响。首先,由于中心气体密度的急剧上升,与非辐射运行相比,引力放大被显著放大。第二,由于冷却过程,剪切运动在核心比在绝热情况下强得多,导致额外的场放大和没有显着的磁重联。

英文摘要:

Various observations of magnetic fields in the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM), most of the time restricted to cluster cores, point towards field strength of the order of a few microG (synchrotron radiation from radio relics and radio halos, inverse Compton radiation in X-rays and Faraday rotation measure of polarised background sources). Both the origin and the spatial structure of galaxy clusters magnetic fields are still under debate. In particular, the radial profile of the magnetic field, from the core of clusters to their outskirts, is of great importance for cosmic rays propagation within the Cosmic Web. In this letter, we highlight the importance of cooling processes in amplifying the magnetic field in the core of galaxy clusters up to one order of magnitude above the typical amplification obtained for a pure adiabatic evolution. We have performed a "zoom'' cosmological simulation of a 3 keV cluster, including dark matter and gas dynamics, atomic cooling, UV heating and star formation using the newly developed MHD solver in the AMR code RAMSES. Magnetic field amplification proceeds mainly through gravitational contraction. Shearing motions due to turbulence provide additional amplification in the outskirts of the cluster, while magnetic reconnection during mergers causes magnetic field dissipation in the core. Cooling processes have a strong impact on the magnetic field structure in the cluster. First, due to the sharp rise of the gas density in the centre, gravitational amplification is significantly amplified, when compared to the non--radiative run. Second, due to cooling processes, shearing motions are much stronger in the core than in the adiabatic case, leading to additional field amplification and no significant magnetic reconnection.

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