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宇宙射线和附近星暴星系NGC253 III的磁场。核外流中的螺旋磁场

Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253 III. Helical magnetic fields in the nuclear outflow

Volker Heesen, Rainer Beck, Marita Krause, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

摘要:

磁场是一个很好的示踪气体压缩的冲击波,这可能是由于相互作用的恒星形成驱动流出的个别恒星形成网站所描述的烟囱模型。我们研究了核星暴星系NGC 253中心部分的磁场结构,空间分辨率在40到150 pc之间,以探测与核外流相关的任何额外发射。将分辨率为7.5”的3 cm处的新VLA观察结果与20 cm和6 cm处的存档数据相结合。我们发现,在一个几何分布,我们解释为西北核流出锥的边界的连续无线电发射。无论观测频率如何,连续谱发射的标度高度都是150+/-20 pc。平均磁场强度为46+/-10 microG的总磁场和21+/-5 microG的常规领域中的灯丝。有序的磁场沿着灯丝排列,与由于压缩而产生的放大一致。穿过细丝的垂直扩散系数为kappa_perp = 1.5 x 10^28 cm ^2 s^-1 E(GeV)^(0.5+/-0.7)。在核流出锥的SE部分中,磁场以螺旋的形式指向远离盘的方向,其中方位角分量增加到至少1200 pc高度,其中方位角分量大约等于总分量。在2.2kpc半径范围内,盘中有序磁场是各向异性的。在较大半径处,大尺度场是规则的,并且具有偶宇称。磁场能够校准流出,这可以解释观察到的~26度的小开度角。由于角动量守恒,场线被冻结在等离子体中并缠绕成螺旋形。宇宙射线电子的强绝热损失可以部分解释为什么原子核的射电光度低于射电-远红外相关。

英文摘要:

Magnetic fields are a good tracer for gas compression by shock waves, which can be caused by interaction of star-formation driven outflows from individual star formation sites as described in the chimney model. We study the magnetic field structure in the central part of the nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 253 with spatial resolutions between 40 and 150 pc to detect any filamentary emission associated with the nuclear outflow. New VLA observations at 3 cm with 7.5" resolution were combined with archive data at 20 and 6 cm. We find filamentary radio continuum emission in a geometrical distribution that we interpret as the boundary of the northwestern nuclear outflow cone. The scaleheight of the continuum emission is 150+/-20 pc, regardless of the observing frequency. The equipartition magnetic field strength is 46+/-10 microG for the total field and 21+/-5 microG for the regular field in the filaments. The ordered magnetic field is aligned along the filaments, in agreement with amplification due to compression. The perpendicular diffusion coefficient across the filaments is kappa_perp = 1.5 x 10^28 cm^2 s^-1 E(GeV)^(0.5+/-0.7). In the SE part of the nuclear outflow cone the magnetic field is pointing away from the disc in form of a helix, with an azimuthal component increasing up to at least 1200 pc height, where it is about equal to the total component. The ordered magnetic field in the disc is anisotropic within a radius of 2.2 kpc. At larger radii, the large-scale field is regular and of even parity. The magnetic field is able to collimate the outflow, which can explain the observed small opening angle of ~26 degree. Due to angular momentum conservation, the field lines are frozen into the plasma and are wound up into a helix. Strong adiabatic losses of the cosmic-ray electrons can partly explain why the radio luminosity of the nucleus lies below the radio-FIR correlation.

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