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香肠星系团中射电遗迹的湍流Cosmic-Ray再加速和弯曲射电频谱

Turbulent Cosmic-Ray Reacceleration and the Curved Radio Spectrum of the Radio Relic in the Sausage Cluster

Yutaka Fujita, Hiroki Akamatsu, Shigeo S. Kimura

摘要:

人们通常认为,在星系团CIZA J2242.8+5301(“香肠”星系团)中的北方射电遗迹与宇宙射线(CR)电子有关,这些电子通过扩散激波加速(DSA)机制在激波中加速。然而,最近的射电观测表明,无线电频谱是弯曲的,这与简单DSA模型的预测不一致。此外,受辐射冷却影响之前的CR电子谱似乎对DSA来说太难。在这项研究中,我们表明,这些事实是自然的后果,如果电子在湍流下游的冲击。在这个模型中,DSA不是产生高能电子的主要机制。我们发现,电子的平均自由程应远远短于库仑平均自由程有效的再加速。湍流漩涡的尺度必须小于遗迹的宽度。我们还预测了光子逆康普顿散射的硬X射线谱。

英文摘要:

It has often been thought that the northern radio relic in the galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301 (the "Sausage" Cluster) is associated with cosmic ray (CR) electrons that are accelerated at a shock through the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. However, recent radio observations have shown that the radio spectrum is curved, which is inconsistent with the prediction of a simple DSA model. Moreover, the CR electron spectrum before being affected by radiative cooling seems to be too hard for DSA. In this study, we show that these facts are natural consequences if the electrons are reaccelerated in turbulence downstream of the shock. In this model, DSA is not the main mechanism for generating high-energy electrons. We find that the mean free path of the electrons should be much shorter than the Coulomb mean free path for efficient reacceleration. The scale of the turbulent eddies must be smaller than the width of the relic. We also predict hard X-ray spectra of inverse Compton scattering of photons.

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