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团内介质准全球模型中的HBI

The HBI in a quasi-global model of the intracluster medium

Henrik N. Latter, Matthew W. Kunz

摘要:

本文研究了对流不稳定性对冷核星系团团内介质(ICM)热传导的影响。ICM是一种高β、弱碰撞等离子体,其中动量和热量的传输与磁场一致。特别是热传导的各向异性,会引起不稳定性,这些不稳定性可以访问存储在任一符号的温度梯度中的能量。我们专注于热通量浮力驱动的不稳定性(HBI),它的饲料上向外增加的温度分布的集群冷核心。我们的目的是阐明如何全球结构的集群的影响的增长和形态的线性HBI模式时,在存在的Braginskii粘度,并最终对HBI的隔热核心的能力。我们采用了一个理想化的准全球模型,平面平行的大气,它捕捉基本的物理-例如,全球径向轮廓的集群-同时让问题保持分析处理。我们的主要结果是,占主导地位的HBI模式是本地化的冷核心的最里面(~<20%)的地区。然后,在非线性状态下,可能的是,明显的场线绝缘将类似地局部化。因此,虽然射电模式反馈在中心几十kpc中是必要的,但热传导可能能够在哈勃时间的很大一部分中抵消冷核心的辐射损失。最后,我们的线性解决方案提供了一个方便的数值测试的非线性代码,解决饱和的各向异性运输的存在下,这样的对流不稳定性。

英文摘要:

In this paper we investigate how convective instabilities influence heat conduction in the intracluster medium (ICM) of cool-core galaxy clusters. The ICM is a high-beta, weakly collisional plasma in which the transport of momentum and heat is aligned with the magnetic field. The anisotropy of heat conduction, in particular, gives rise to instabilities that can access energy stored in a temperature gradient of either sign. We focus on the heat-flux buoyancy-driven instability (HBI), which feeds on the outwardly increasing temperature profile of cluster cool cores. Our aim is to elucidate how the global structure of a cluster impacts on the growth and morphology of the linear HBI modes when in the presence of Braginskii viscosity, and ultimately on the ability of the HBI to thermally insulate cores. We employ an idealised quasi-global model, the plane-parallel atmosphere, which captures the essential physics -- e.g. the global radial profile of the cluster -- while letting the problem remain analytically tractable. Our main result is that the dominant HBI modes are localised to the the innermost (~<20%) regions of cool cores. It is then probable that, in the nonlinear regime, appreciable field-line insulation will be similarly localised. Thus, while radio-mode feedback appears necessary in the central few tens of kpc, heat conduction may be capable of offsetting radiative losses throughout most of a cool core over a significant fraction of the Hubble time. Finally, our linear solutions provide a convenient numerical test for the nonlinear codes that tackle the saturation of such convective instabilities in the presence of anisotropic transport.

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