用机械AGN反馈求解冷却流问题
Solving the Cooling Flow Problem through Mechanical AGN Feedback
摘要：
等离子体的非相对辐射冷却将导致冷却灾难，即大量的冷凝气体流入星系、星系团和星系团的核心。上一代X射线望远镜钱德拉和XMM从根本上改变了我们对重子的看法，表明AGN加热是冷却的平衡对应物。这项工作回顾了我们对自调节加热的广泛研究。我们认为，机械反馈，大量的亚相对论外流的基础上，是解决冷却流问题的关键，即显着淬火的冷却速率为几个陀螺，而不破坏冷芯结构。使用修改后的版本的三维水代码FLASH，我们表明，双极活动星系核流出可以进一步再现基本的观察功能，如浮力气泡，弱冲击，金属疏浚，和湍流。后者是驱动非线性热不稳定性的基本成分，这会导致形成扩展的冷气，淬火冷却流的残余物，以及后来的反馈发动机燃料。与星系团相比，星系团和星系需要更温和的机械反馈，以避免灾难性的过热。我们突出了一个现实的活动星系核反馈的基本特征，强调观测的一致性。
英文摘要：
Unopposed radiative cooling of plasma would lead to the cooling catastrophe, a massive inflow of condensing gas, manifest in the core of galaxies, groups and clusters. The last generation X-ray telescopes, Chandra and XMM, have radically changed our view on baryons, indicating AGN heating as the balancing counterpart of cooling. This work reviews our extensive investigation on self-regulated heating. We argue that the mechanical feedback, based on massive subrelativistic outflows, is the key to solving the cooling flow problem, i.e. dramatically quenching the cooling rates for several Gyr without destroying the cool-core structure. Using a modified version of the 3D hydrocode FLASH, we show that bipolar AGN outflows can further reproduce fundamental observed features, such as buoyant bubbles, weak shocks, metals dredge- up, and turbulence. The latter is an essential ingredient to drive nonlinear thermal instabilities, which cause the formation of extended cold gas, a residual of the quenched cooling flow and, later, fuel for the feedback engine. Compared to clusters, groups and galaxies require a gentler mechanical feedback, in order to avoid catastrophic overheating. We highlight the essential characteristics for a realistic AGN feedback, with emphasis on observational consistency.
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