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增积星系团NGC 4839和后发座射电遗迹的朱雀X射线观测

Suzaku X-Ray Observations of the Accreting NGC 4839 Group of Galaxies and the Radio Relic in the Coma Cluster

Hiroki Akamatsu, Susumu Inoue, Takuya Sato, Kyoko Matsushita, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Craig L. Sarazin

摘要:

利用朱雀X射线观测资料,研究了NGC 4839星系群周围的热气体和后发座星系团外围的射电遗迹。我们发现在NGC 4839周围的气体温度从5千电子伏逐渐下降到3.6千电子伏的无线电遗迹,在那里有一个进一步的,陡峭的下降到1.5千电子伏。这种下降以及观测到的表面亮度轮廓与一个马赫数M = 2.2 pm 0.5、速度vs =(1410 pm 110)km s^-1的激波相一致。从上限到逆康普顿X射线发射的磁场强度,导出了B > 0.33 μ G的下限。虽然这表明,非热电子负责的遗物产生的扩散冲击加速(DSA),测量的马赫数和电子光谱之间的关系从无线电观测推断是不一致的,从最简单的,DSA的测试粒子理论的预期。尽管如此,DSA仍然是可行的,如果它是通过注入预先存在的人口的非热电子。结合以前的测量结果,Coma在西南方向的温度廓线在NGC 4839之外较浅,在最外面的区域也略浅。NGC 4839周围的金属丰度被证实高于其附近地区,这意味着丰度分布中的一个显著峰值,朝着外围降低到0.2太阳能。我们解释这些事实是由于冲压压力汽提富含金属的气体从NGC 4839,因为它落入昏迷。残留激波可能是由预先存在的团内气体、与NGC 4839有关的气体以及从西南部的大尺度结构暗条流入的较冷气体的联合作用造成的。

英文摘要:

Based on Suzaku X-ray observations, we study the hot gas around the NGC4839 group of galaxies and the radio relic in the outskirts of the Coma cluster. We find a gradual decline in the gas temperature from 5 keV around NGC4839 to 3.6 keV at the radio relic, across which there is a further, steeper drop down to 1.5 keV. This drop as well as the observed surface brightness profile are consistent with a shock with Mach number M = 2.2 pm 0.5 and velocity vs = (1410 pm 110) km s^-1. A lower limit of B > 0.33 mu G is derived on the magnetic field strength around the relic from upper limits to inverse Compton X-ray emission. Although this suggests that the non-thermal electrons responsible for the relic are generated by diffusive shock acceleration (DSA), the relation between the measured Mach number and the electron spectrum inferred from radio observations are inconsistent with that expected from the simplest, test-particle theory of DSA. Nevertheless, DSA is still viable if it is initiated by the injection of a pre-existing population of non-thermal electrons. Combined with previous measurements, the temperature profile of Coma in the southwest direction is shallower outside NGC4839 and also slightly shallower in the outermost region. The metal abundance around NGC4839 is confirmed to be higher than in its vicinity, implying a significant peak in the abundance profile that decreases to 0.2 solar toward the outskirts. We interpret these facts as due to ram pressure stripping of metal-enriched gas from NGC4839 as it falls into Coma. The relic shock may result from the combined interaction of pre-existing intracluster gas, gas associated with NGC 4839, and cooler gas flowing in from the large-scale structure filament in the southwest.

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