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AGN喷出物的磁流体动力学弛豫:星团内介质中的射电泡

Magnetohydrodynamic relaxation of AGN ejecta: radio bubbles in the intracluster medium

Jonathan Braithwaite

摘要:

星系团的X射线图像经常显示出密度不足的气泡,这些气泡显然是由活动星系核流出而膨胀起来的。我认为这样的气泡内的磁场的演变,使用解析和数值方法的混合。据发现,该领域放宽到一个平衡填充整个体积的气泡。发生这种情况的时间尺度主要取决于流出的磁化强度和螺旋度以及周围ICM的性质。如果外流被强磁化,磁场在短时间尺度上经历重联,磁能被转化为热量,同时磁场的特征长度尺度上升;当达到全局平衡时,这个过程停止。平衡场的强度取决于活动星系核注入磁泡的磁螺旋度:如果外流具有一致的净通量,因此具有大的螺旋度,那么全球平衡将在短时间尺度上达到,而低螺旋度外流导致没有达到全球平衡,并且在观测时重联将继续进行。然而,局部磁通管平衡将形成。另一方面,如果流出物的磁化强度很弱,则不会发生重联,气泡内的磁场保持小尺度和被动。这些结果对气泡的内部组成,它们与ICM的相互作用-特别是解释气泡如何在ICM中移动很大的距离而不破裂-以及一般的冷却流问题具有影响。此外,气泡中的重连点可能是高能粒子的方便来源,避免了同步辐射器的寿命比它们所居住的气泡的年龄短的问题。

英文摘要:

X-ray images of galaxy clusters often display underdense bubbles which are apparently inflated by AGN outflow. I consider the evolution of the magnetic field inside such a bubble, using a mixture of analytic and numerical methods. It is found that the field relaxes into an equilibrium filling the entire volume of the bubble. The timescale on which this happens depends critically on the magnetisation and helicity of the outflow as well as on properties of the surrounding ICM. If the outflow is strongly magnetised, the magnetic field undergoes reconnection on a short timescale, magnetic energy being converted into heat whilst the characteristic length scale of the field rises; this process stops when a global equilibrium is reached. The strength of the equilibrium field is determined by the magnetic helicity injected into the bubble by the AGN: if the outflow has a consistent net flux and consequently a large helicity then a global equilibrium will be reached on a short timescale, whereas a low-helicity outflow results in no global equilibrium being reached and at the time of observation reconnection will be ongoing. However, localised flux-tube equilibria will form. If, on the other hand, the outflow is very weakly magnetised, no reconnection occurs and the magnetic field inside the bubble remains small-scale and passive. These results have implications for the internal composition of the bubbles, their interaction with ICM -- in particular to explain how bubbles could move a large distance through the ICM without breaking up -- as well as for the cooling flow problem in general. In addition, reconnection sites in a bubble could be a convenient source of energetic particles, circumventing the problem of synchrotron emitters having a shorter lifetime than the age of the bubble they inhabit.

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