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考虑各向异性热传导的团内介质中MHD不稳定性的模拟

Simulations of MHD Instabilities in Intracluster Medium Including Anisotropic Thermal Conduction

Tamara Bogdanovic, Christopher S. Reynolds, Steven A. Balbus, Ian J. Parrish

摘要:

为了研究最近发现的热通量浮力不稳定性(HBI)对星系团核心演化的影响,我们对星系团核心的冷却进行了一系列模拟。我们的模型遵循冷却星系团核心的三维磁流体动力学(MHD),并捕获沿磁场线的各向异性热传导的影响,但不考虑星系团的宇宙学背景或活动星系核的存在。我们的模型星系团可以分为三组,根据其最终的物理状态:灾变坍缩核心,等温核心,和一个中间组,其最终状态是由初始配置的磁场。模拟的核心,让人想起真正的集群核心显示演化的热崩溃的时间尺度上延长了约2-10倍的零传导的情况下相比。HBI的主要作用是将场线重新定向为垂直于温度梯度。一旦场被包裹在围绕核心的球形表面上,核心就与进一步的传导加热绝缘(有效热传导被抑制到小于斯皮策值的1/100)并继续塌陷。我们推测,在真正的集群,中央活动星系核和合并可能发挥的作用,“搅拌器”,周期性地破坏方位场结构,并允许热传导偶尔加热的核心。

英文摘要:

We perform a suite of simulations of cooling cores in clusters of galaxies in order to investigate the effect of the recently discovered heat flux buoyancy instability (HBI) on the evolution of cores. Our models follow the 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of cooling cluster cores and capture the effects of anisotropic heat conduction along the lines of magnetic field, but do not account for the cosmological setting of clusters or the presence of AGN. Our model clusters can be divided into three groups according to their final thermodynamical state: catastrophically collapsing cores, isothermal cores, and an intermediate group whose final state is determined by the initial configuration of magnetic field. Modeled cores that are reminiscent of real cluster cores show evolution towards thermal collapse on a time scale which is prolonged by a factor of ~2-10 compared with the zero-conduction cases. The principal effect of the HBI is to re-orient field lines to be perpendicular to the temperature gradient. Once the field has been wrapped up onto spherical surfaces surrounding the core, the core is insulated from further conductive heating (with the effective thermal conduction suppressed to less than 1/100th of the Spitzer value) and proceeds to collapse. We speculate that, in real clusters, the central AGN and possibly mergers play the role of "stirrers," periodically disrupting the azimuthal field structure and allowing thermal conduction to sporadically heat the core.

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