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星系团中Turbulence在AGN自我调节中的作用

The Role of Turbulence in AGN Self-Regulation in Galaxy Clusters

Evan Scannapieco, Marcus Brüggen

摘要:

星系团的冷核被认为是由低能量的活动星系核(AGN)加热的,活动星系核的吸积受反馈调节。然而,活动星系核喷出的热气体与周围的团内介质之间的相互作用是非常难以模拟的,因为它涉及到广泛的空间尺度和瑞利-泰勒(RT)不稳定的气体。在这里,我们使用RT驱动的湍流亚网格模型来克服这些问题,并提出了第一个观测一致的流体动力学模拟活动星系核的自我调节星系团。对于广泛的参数选择,在我们的三维模拟集群调节自己至少几个陀螺年。通过一系列爆发,加热平衡冷却,典型的复发时间约为8000万年,时间尺度仅取决于全球集群属性。

英文摘要:

Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium is extremely difficult to simulate, as it involves a wide range of spatial scales and gas that is Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable. Here we use a subgrid model for RT-driven turbulence to overcome these problems and present the first observationally-consistent hydrodynamical simulations of AGN self-regulation in galaxy clusters. For a wide range of parameter choices the cluster in our three-dimensional simulations regulates itself for at least several Gyrs years. Heating balances cooling through a string of outbreaks with a typical recurrence time of approximately 80 Myrs, a timescale that depends only on the global cluster properties.

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