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通过射电和gamma-ray观测约束星系团中的相对论质子和磁场:A2256的情况

Constraining relativistic protons and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters through radio and gamma-ray observations : the case of A2256

G. Brunetti

摘要:

巨型射电晕是星系团弥散同步辐射最相关的例子。这些源中的一些具有非常陡峭的光谱,光谱指数为$α\geq 1.5-1.6$($F(ν) \propto ν^{-α}$),并且是测试相对论粒子起源的当前模型的理想目标。A2256拥有最近的射电晕,具有非常陡峭的光谱,具有$α=1.61$,并且集群中非常大的相对论质子人口将是必要的,以解释晕由于次级粒子的同步辐射。在这种情况下,0.1-1 GeV的$γ$ -射线的光度预计10-20倍以上的集群托管无线电晕类似的无线电功率在GHz的频率,但光谱更典型的目前观察到的晕人口,$α\sim 1.2$。在这些假设下,如果星系团中心区域的磁场为$\leq$ 10-15 $μ$ G,那么FERMI/GLAST观测有望探测到A2256。我们表明,这将允许一个及时的测试强子模型的起源无线电晕,并补充约束的集群磁场和粒子加速机制的物理。

英文摘要:

Giant radio halos are the most relevant examples of diffuse synchrotron emission from galaxy clusters. A number of these sources have very steep spectrum, with spectral index $α\geq 1.5-1.6$ ($F(ν) \propto ν^{-α}$), and are ideal targets to test current models for the origin of the relativistic particles. A2256 hosts the nearest radio halo with very steep spectrum, with $α=1.61$, and a very large population of relativistic protons in the cluster would be necessary to explain the halo as due to synchrotron emission from secondary particles. In this case the 0.1-1 GeV $γ$--ray luminosity is expected 10-20 times larger than that of clusters hosting radio halos with similar radio power at GHz frequencies but with spectra more typical of the presently observed halo population, $α\sim 1.2$. Under these assumptions incoming FERMI/GLAST observations are expected to detect A2256, provided that the magnetic field in the central cluster region is $\leq$10-15 $μ$G. We show that this will allow for a prompt test of hadronic models for the origin of radio halos, and for complementary constraints on both the cluster magnetic field and the physics of particle acceleration mechanisms.

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