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贫星系团AWM 4 - I的钱德拉深空观测。中央射电星系的性质及其对团内介质的影响

A deep Chandra observation of the poor cluster AWM 4 - I. Properties of the central radio galaxy and its effects on the intracluster medium

Ewan O'Sullivan, Simona Giacintucci, Laurence P. David, Jan M. Vrtilek, Somak Raychaudhury

摘要:

利用钱德拉X射线天文台和巨型米波射电望远镜的观测资料,研究了贫星系团AWM 4的团内介质与中心射电源之间的相互作用。在钱德拉观测中,一个小的冷核或星系日冕与射电核一致。这个日冕能够为活跃的原子核提供燃料,但必须通过喷流相互作用或传导进行低效加热,这可能排除了射电源和星团之间的反馈关系。缺乏清晰的X射线空洞表明射电瓣只有部分被相对论等离子体填充。对于更好的约束东瓣,我们估计填充因子为phi=0.21(3 sigma上限phi<0.42)。我们认为,在射流和叶的粒子人口,并发现,标准均分假设预测的压力和年龄同意与X射线估计不佳。包括延伸到低洛伦兹因子的电子群体减少(gamma_min=100)或消除(gamma_min=10)叶与其环境之间的压力不平衡。压力平衡也可以通过热气体的夹带来实现,可能在射电喷流的最初几千秒差距内。我们估计的射电星系的机械功率输出,并发现它是勉强能够平衡辐射冷却。

英文摘要:

Using observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, we examine the interaction between the intracluster medium and central radio source in the poor cluster AWM 4. In the Chandra observation a small cool core or galactic corona is resolved coincident with the radio core. This corona is capable of fuelling the active nucleus, but must be inefficiently heated by jet interactions or conduction, possibly precluding a feedback relationship between the radio source and cluster. A lack of clearly detected X-ray cavities suggests that the radio lobes are only partially filled by relativistic plasma. We estimate a filling factor of phi=0.21 (3 sigma upper limit phi<0.42) for the better constrained east lobe. We consider the particle population in the jets and lobes, and find that the standard equipartition assumptions predict pressures and ages which agree poorly with X-ray estimates. Including an electron population extending to low Lorentz factors either reduces (gamma_min=100) or removes (gamma_min=10) the pressure imbalance between the lobes and their environment. Pressure balance can also be achieved by entrainment of thermal gas, probably in the first few kiloparsecs of the radio jets. We estimate the mechanical power output of the radio galaxy, and find it to be marginally capable of balancing radiative cooling.

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