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椭圆星系中的冲压压力剥离:I。星际介质turbulence

Ram pressure stripping in elliptical galaxies: I. the impact of the interstellar medium turbulence

Min-Su Shin, Mateusz Ruszkowski

摘要:

椭圆星系含有X射线发射气体,在与星系团年龄相当的时间尺度上受到连续的冲压压力剥离。这些星系中的气体并不处于完美的流体静力平衡。超新星反馈、恒星风或活动星系核(AGN)反馈可以显著扰动星际介质(ISM)。利用流体动力学模拟,我们研究了热ISM中亚音速湍流对早型星系冲压压力剥离过程的影响。我们发现,星系更动荡的ISM产生更长,更广泛,更平滑分布的尾巴剥离ISM比那些特征较弱的ISM动荡。我们的主要结论是,即使是非常弱的内部湍流,在<15%的平均ISM声速的水平,可以显着加速气体从星系通过冲压压力剥离。这种效应的大小随着湍流的强度而急剧增加。由于大多数气体剥离发生在ISM和团内介质(ICM)之间的边界附近,ISM剥离率的提高是由于ISM从银河系势阱的中心区域到更大距离的“随机行走”,在那里,冲压压力能够永久地从星系中去除气体。由于湍流ISM与ICM的混合,ICM可以暂时被困在银河系势阱中。具有更多湍流ISM的星系,但仍然具有非常弱的湍流特征,可以容纳更多的ICM。[摘要]

英文摘要:

Elliptical galaxies contain X-ray emitting gas that is subject to continuous ram pressure stripping over timescales comparable to cluster ages. The gas in these galaxies is not in perfect hydrostatic equilibrium. Supernova feedback, stellar winds, or active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback can significantly perturb the interstellar medium (ISM). Using hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the effect of subsonic turbulence in the hot ISM on the ram pressure stripping process in early-type galaxies. We find that galaxies with more turbulent ISM produce longer, wider, and more smoothly distributed tails of the stripped ISM than those characterised by weaker ISM turbulence. Our main conclusion is that even very weak internal turbulence, at the level of <15% of the average ISM sound speed, can significantly accelerate the gas removal from galaxies via ram pressure stripping. The magnitude of this effect increases sharply with the strength of turbulence. As most of the gas stripping takes place near the boundary between the ISM and the intraclustermedium (ICM), the boost in the ISM stripping rate is due to the "random walk" of the ISM from the central regions of the galactic potential well to larger distances, where the ram pressure is able to permanently remove the gas from galaxies. The ICM can be temporarily trapped inside the galactic potential well due to the mixing of the turbulent ISM with the ICM. The galaxies with more turbulent ISM, yet still characterised by very weak turbulence, can hold larger amounts of the ICM. [Abridged]

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