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费米观测对星系团射电晕强子模型的启示

Implications of Fermi Observations for Hadronic Models of Radio Halos in Clusters of Galaxies

Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

摘要:

我们分析了费米探测不到星系团的γ射线辐射对星系团射电晕起源的强子模型的影响。在强子模型中,非弹性质子-质子碰撞产生了电子-正电子,为观测到的同步辐射提供了能量,产生了来自中性π介子衰变的伽马射线通量,其光谱和归一化取决于观测到的射电发射率和星系团的磁场。因此,我们推断的平均集群磁场在强子模型的费米伽玛射线极限的下限。我们还计算了相应的最大能量密度的宇宙射线和最小保证的伽玛射线通量强子射电晕模型。我们发现,观测上最有趣的情况下对应的集群具有大的无线电发射率具有软谱。对这些星系团中心磁场值的估计大于或接近从法拉第旋转测量星系团推断出的最大磁场值,从而使射电晕的强子起源变得紧张。然而,在大多数情况下,我们发现费米数据本身并不排除强子模型的集群无线电晕作为预期的伽马射线通量可以被推到费米灵敏度以下的渐近大磁场。我们还发现,宇宙射线并没有显着贡献的集群附近的无线电晕集群的能量预算。

英文摘要:

We analyze the impact of the Fermi non-detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies on hadronic models for the origin of cluster radio halos. In hadronic models, the inelastic proton-proton collisions responsible for the production of the electron-positron population fueling the observed synchrotron radio emission yield a gamma-ray flux, from the decay of neutral pions, whose spectrum and normalization depend on the observed radio emissivity and on the cluster magnetic field. We thus infer lower limits on the average cluster magnetic field in hadronic models from the Fermi gamma-ray limits. We also calculate the corresponding maximal energy density in cosmic rays and the minimal-guaranteed gamma-ray flux from hadronic radio-halo models. We find that the observationally most interesting cases correspond to clusters with large radio emissivities featuring soft spectra. Estimates of the central magnetic field values for those clusters are larger than, or close, to the largest magnetic field values inferred from Faraday rotation measures of clusters, placing tension on the hadronic origin of radio halos. In most cases, however, we find that the Fermi data do not per se rule out hadronic models for cluster radio halos as the expected gamma-ray flux can be pushed below the Fermi sensitivity for asymptotically large magnetic fields. We also find that cosmic rays do not contribute significantly to the cluster energy budget for nearby radio halo clusters.

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