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具有传导和AGN反馈加热的半导体团簇的全局稳定性分析

A Global Stability Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies with Conduction and AGN Feedback Heating

Fulai Guo, S. Peng Oh, M. Ruszkowski

摘要:

我们研究了一系列星系团的稳态模型,其中热的团内气体被有效地加热的活动星系核(AGN)的反馈和热传导,并在其中的质量吸积率大大降低相比,由标准的冷却流模型预测。我们进行了一个全球拉格朗日稳定性分析。我们第一次证明了活动星系核的反馈机制可以抑制冷核团簇的全局径向不稳定性,只要反馈效率超过一个临界下限。此外,我们的分析自然表明,集群可以以两种不同的形式存在。整体稳定的星系团可能有:1)由活动星系核反馈和传导稳定的冷核心,或2)主要由传导稳定的非冷核心。中间的中心温度通常会导致全局不稳定的解决方案。这种双峰性与最近观察到的温度分布的平坦性和活动星系核活动之间的关系(Dunn & Fabian 2008)以及Raffeirs等人(2008)的观察结果一致,即较短的中心冷却时间往往对应于显着年轻的活动星系核X射线空腔。

英文摘要:

We investigate a series of steady-state models of galaxy clusters, in which the hot intracluster gas is efficiently heated by active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and thermal conduction, and in which the mass accretion rates are highly reduced compared to those predicted by the standard cooling flow models. We perform a global Lagrangian stability analysis. We show for the first time that the global radial instability in cool core clusters can be suppressed by the AGN feedback mechanism, provided that the feedback efficiency exceeds a critical lower limit. Furthermore, our analysis naturally shows that the clusters can exist in two distinct forms. Globally stable clusters are expected to have either: 1) cool cores stabilized by both AGN feedback and conduction, or 2) non-cool cores stabilized primarily by conduction. Intermediate central temperatures typically lead to globally unstable solutions. This bimodality is consistent with the recently observed anticorrelation between the flatness of the temperature profiles and the AGN activity (Dunn & Fabian 2008) and the observation by Rafferty et al. (2008) that the shorter central cooling times tend to correspond to significantly younger AGN X-ray cavities.

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