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涨落发电机及其法拉第旋转特征

Fluctuation dynamos and their Faraday rotation signatures

Pallavi Bhat, Kandaswamy Subramanian

摘要:

湍流在许多天体物理系统中普遍存在,如星系、星系团,甚至可能是IGM细丝。我们研究波动发电机行动的湍流系统集中在一个观测签名,法拉第旋转措施(RM)从背景无线电源看到通过这样的发电机产生的磁场。我们模拟了周期性盒子中的波动发电机(FD),分辨率高达512^3,具有不同的流体和磁雷诺数,并测量了由此产生的随机RM。我们表明,即使产生的磁场是间歇性的,它仍然允许的RM的贡献是显着的。当发电机饱和时,它是模型中预期值的40%-50%,其中强度B_rms的场均匀地填充最大湍流涡流的单元,但从一个单元到另一个单元随机定向。这种水平的RM分散获得不同的磁雷诺数和普朗特数的值探索。我们还使用随机RM来探测所产生的场的结构,以区分来自强场区域和扩散场区域的贡献。我们发现,强场区(假设B > 2B_rms)对RM的贡献仅为15%-20%。因此,罕见的结构不占主导地位的RM,而是一般的“海”的体积填充波动场的主要贡献者。我们还表明,磁积分尺度,L_{int},这是直接相关的RM色散,增加在所有的运行,作为洛伦兹力变得重要的饱和发电机。看来,由于洛伦兹力的有序效应,饱和场的L_{int}趋于一个适度的分数,1/2-1/3的速度场的积分尺度,对于我们所有的运行。最后将这些结果应用于讨论年轻星系、星系团和星系际暗条中FD产生场的RM特征。

英文摘要:

Turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical systems like galaxies, galaxy clusters and possibly even the IGM filaments. We study fluctuation dynamo action in turbulent systems focusing on one observational signature; the Faraday rotation measure (RM) from background radio sources seen through the magnetic field generated by such a dynamo. We simulate the fluctuation dynamo (FD) in periodic boxes up to resolutions of 512^3, with varying fluid and magnetic Reynolds numbers, and measure the resulting random RMs. We show that, even though the magnetic field generated is intermittent, it still allows for contributions to the RM to be significant. When the dynamo saturates, it is of order 40%-50% of the value expected in a model where fields of strength B_rms uniformly fill cells of the largest turbulent eddy but are randomly oriented from one cell to another. This level of RM dispersion obtains across different values of magnetic Reynolds number and Prandtl number explored. We also use the random RMs to probe the structure of the generated fields to distinguish the contribution from intense and diffuse field regions. We find that the strong field regions (say with B > 2B_rms) contribute only of order 15%-20% to the RM. Thus rare structures do not dominate the RM; rather the general 'sea' of volume filling fluctuating fields are the dominant contributors. We also show that the magnetic integral scale, L_{int}, which is directly related to the RM dispersion, increases in all the runs, as Lorentz forces become important to saturate the dynamo. It appears that due to the ordering effect of the Lorentz forces, L_{int} of the saturated field tends to a modest fraction, 1/2-1/3 of the integral scale of the velocity field, for all our runs. These results are then applied to discuss the RM signatures of FD generated fields in young galaxies, galaxy clusters and intergalactic filaments.

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