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星系外流的星系团磁场

Cluster Magnetic Fields from Galactic Outflows

J. Donnert, K. Dolag, H. Lesch, E. Müller

摘要:

我们进行了宇宙学,磁流体动力学模拟,以遵循星系团的磁场的演变,探索的可能性,即起源的磁性种子场的星系外流在恒星爆发阶段的星系演化。为此,我们将\citet{2006MNRAS.370..319B}建议的磁化星系风半解析模型与我们的宇宙学模拟相结合。我们发现,在星系团中观察到的磁场的强度和结构是很好地再现了广泛的模型参数的磁化,星系风,并只弱依赖于确切的磁场结构内假设的星系流出。虽然原始磁种子场的演化与以往研究中的星系团场演化没有显著差异,但我们发现暗条内弥散介质中的磁场污染程度低于纯原始磁种子场情景所预测的水平。因此,我们的结论是磁化星系外流和它们随后的演化内的集群介质可以完全解释所观察到的星系团的磁场。我们的发现还表明,在低密度环境(如细丝)中测量宇宙磁场比观察星系团磁场更有用,可以推断它们可能的起源。

英文摘要:

We performed cosmological, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to follow the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters, exploring the possibility that the origin of the magnetic seed fields are galactic outflows during the star-burst phase of galactic evolution. To do this we coupled a semi-analytical model for magnetized galactic winds as suggested by \citet{2006MNRAS.370..319B} to our cosmological simulation. We find that the strength and structure of magnetic fields observed in galaxy clusters are well reproduced for a wide range of model parameters for the magnetized, galactic winds and do only weakly depend on the exact magnetic structure within the assumed galactic outflows. Although the evolution of a primordial magnetic seed field shows no significant differences to that of galaxy clusters fields from previous studies, we find that the magnetic field pollution in the diffuse medium within filaments is below the level predicted by scenarios with pure primordial magnetic seed field. We therefore conclude that magnetized galactic outflows and their subsequent evolution within the intra-cluster medium can fully account for the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Our findings also suggest that measuring cosmological magnetic fields in low-density environments such as filaments is much more useful than observing cluster magnetic fields to infer their possible origin.

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