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星系团宇宙线的射电微晕辐射和冷核的加热

Radio Mini-Halo Emission from Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters and Heating of the Cool Cores

Yutaka Fujita, Yutaka Ohira

摘要:

有人提出,星系团的冷核被宇宙射线(CR)稳定加热。如果是这样的话,在冷核心星团的中心区域经常发现的无线电迷你晕可能是来自CR的同步辐射。基于这一思想,我们研究了小晕的径向轮廓。首先,使用数值模拟,我们确认,这是适当的假设,辐射冷却的内集群介质(ICM)是平衡的CR流加热。在这些模拟中,我们假设CR的流动速度是ICM的声速,并且表明加热甚至比流动速度是Alfven速度的情况更稳定。然后,实际上假设冷却和加热之间的平衡,我们估计的径向轮廓CR压力在六个集群只从X射线观测。由于CR质子与ICM质子相互作用,我们可以预测所产生的同步辐射的径向轮廓。我们比较的预测与观察到的径向配置文件中的六个集群的迷你晕,发现它们是一致的,如果的CR的动量谱是陡峭的。这些结果可能表明堆芯实际上是被CR加热的。我们还预测了这六个团簇的宽带谱,并表明团簇的非热通量在硬X射线和γ射线波段很小。

英文摘要:

It has been proposed that the cool cores of galaxy clusters are stably heated by cosmic rays (CRs). If this is the case, radio mini-halos, which are often found in the central regions of cool core clusters, may be attributed to the synchrotron emission from the CRs. Based on this idea, we investigate the radial profiles of the mini-halos. First, using numerical simulations, we confirm that it is appropriate to assume that radiative cooling of the intracluster medium (ICM) is balanced with the heating by CR streaming. In these simulations, we assume that the streaming velocity of the CRs is the sound velocity of the ICM, and indicate that the heating is even more stable than the case where the streaming velocity is the Alfven velocity. Then, actually assuming the balance between cooling and heating, we estimate the radial profiles of CR pressure in six clusters only from X-ray observations. Since the CR protons interact with the ICM protons, we can predict the radial profiles of the resultant synchrotron radiation. We compare the predictions with the observed radial profiles of the mini-halos in the six clusters and find that they are consistent if the momentum spectra of the CRs are steep. These results may indicate that the cores are actually being heated by the CRs. We also predict broad-band spectra of the six clusters, and show that the non-thermal fluxes from the clusters are small in hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands.

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