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团内介质对室女星系团远红外射电相关的影响

How the Intracluster Medium Affects the Far-Infrared--Radio Correlation within Virgo Cluster Galaxies

E. J. Murphy, J. D. P. Kenney, G. Helou, A. Chung, J. H. Howell

摘要:

利用{ \it Spitzer}远红外(FIR)和VLA射电连续成像研究了10个室女星系团的团内介质(ICM)对星际介质(ISM)的影响。依靠前红外无线电相关{ \it内}正常星系,我们使用我们的红外数据创建模型无线电地图,我们观察到的无线电图像进行比较。对于我们的样本星系中的6个,我们发现它们的外缘区域与我们的模型相比在射电方面存在很大的不足。我们认为这些观测结果是ICM冲压压力的特征。对于NGC 4522,我们发现射电亏损区域位于高射电极化和平坦射电频谱指数区域的外部,但该区域的总射电连续谱似乎没有显着增强。这种情况似乎与文献中其他星系的射电偏振数据一致。我们还发现,星系有本地无线电赤字似乎有增强的全球无线电通量。我们首选的物理图像是,观察到的无线电赤字区域产生的ICM风扫走宇宙射线(CR)电子和相关的磁场,从而创建同步加速器尾巴观察我们的一些星系。CR粒子也被ICM驱动的小激波重新加速,这反过来又增强了剩余的射电盘亮度。在这些区域中,高射电极化和同步辐射总功率中缺乏巧合的特征是由切变和可能的温和压缩引起的,因为ICM风拖曳和拉伸了磁场。

英文摘要:

We present a study on the effects of the intracluster medium (ICM) on the interstellar medium (ISM) of 10 Virgo cluster galaxies using {\it Spitzer} far-infrared (FIR) and VLA radio continuum imaging. Relying on the FIR-radio correlation {\it within} normal galaxies, we use our infrared data to create model radio maps which we compare to the observed radio images. For 6 of our sample galaxies we find regions along their outer edges that are highly deficient in the radio compared with our models. We believe these observations are the signatures of ICM ram pressure. For NGC 4522 we find the radio deficit region to lie just exterior to a region of high radio polarization and flat radio spectral index, however the total radio continuum in this region does not appear significantly enhanced. This scenario seems consistent for other galaxies with radio polarization data in the literature. We also find that galaxies having local radio deficits appear to have enhanced global radio fluxes. Our preferred physical picture is that the observed radio deficit regions arise from the ICM wind sweeping away cosmic-ray (CR) electrons and the associated magnetic field, thereby creating synchrotron tails observed for some of our galaxies. CR particles are also re-accelerated by ICM-driven shocklets behind the observed radio deficit regions which in turn enhances the remaining radio disk brightness. The high radio polarization and lack of coincidental signatures in the total synchrotron power in these regions arises from shear, and possibly mild compression, as the ICM wind drags and stretches the magnetic field.

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