arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0905.4500astro-ph.COastro-ph.HE
收藏

各向异性热传导与星系团中的冷却流问题

Anisotropic Thermal Conduction and the Cooling Flow Problem in Galaxy Clusters

Ian J. Parrish, Eliot Quataert, Prateek Sharma

摘要:

我们研究了长期存在的冷却流问题在星系团与孤立的星系团的三维MHD模拟,包括辐射冷却和各向异性热传导沿磁场线。团内介质(ICM)的中心区域可以有大约2亿年或更短的冷却时间尺度-为了防止冷却灾难,ICM必须通过某种机制加热,例如AGN反馈或来自大半径热库的热传导。星系团的核心是线性不稳定的热流驱动的浮力不稳定性(HBI),这显着改变了集团核心的热力学。HBI是一种对流、浮力驱动的不稳定性,它将磁场重新排列为优先垂直于温度梯度。对于广泛的参数范围内,我们的模拟表明,在存在的HBI,有效的径向热导率降低到小于10%的完整的斯皮策传导率。随着传导加热的抑制,冷却灾难发生的时间尺度相当于集群的中央冷却时间。因此,热传导本身不太可能稳定具有低中心熵和短中心冷却时间尺度的团簇。高中心熵的星系团有足够长的冷却时间,传导可以帮助避免宇宙学上有趣的时间尺度的冷却灾难。

英文摘要:

We examine the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters with 3D MHD simulations of isolated clusters including radiative cooling and anisotropic thermal conduction along magnetic field lines. The central regions of the intracluster medium (ICM) can have cooling timescales of ~200 Myr or shorter--in order to prevent a cooling catastrophe the ICM must be heated by some mechanism such as AGN feedback or thermal conduction from the thermal reservoir at large radii. The cores of galaxy clusters are linearly unstable to the heat-flux-driven buoyancy instability (HBI), which significantly changes the thermodynamics of the cluster core. The HBI is a convective, buoyancy-driven instability that rearranges the magnetic field to be preferentially perpendicular to the temperature gradient. For a wide range of parameters, our simulations demonstrate that in the presence of the HBI, the effective radial thermal conductivity is reduced to less than 10% of the full Spitzer conductivity. With this suppression of conductive heating, the cooling catastrophe occurs on a timescale comparable to the central cooling time of the cluster. Thermal conduction alone is thus unlikely to stabilize clusters with low central entropies and short central cooling timescales. High central entropy clusters have sufficiently long cooling times that conduction can help stave off the cooling catastrophe for cosmologically interesting timescales.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑