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宇宙射线加热早期星系际介质吗?

Do Cosmic Rays Heat the Early Intergalactic Medium?

Natacha Leite, Carmelo Evoli, Marta D'Angelo, Benedetta Ciardi, Günter Sigl, Andrea Ferrara

摘要:

宇宙射线(CR)控制着现今星系的能量,并且可能在再电离时期也扮演了关键角色。特别是,第一颗超新星加速的低能($E \lesssim 10$ MeV)CR的能量沉积,可能在中性星系际介质(IGM)($z \approx 20$)被重新电离之前就已经加热并电离了它,这大大增加了X射线或暗物质湮灭的类似效应。使用一个简单的,但物理动机的再电离模型,和CR能量损失的彻底实施,我们表明,CR有助于IGM电离可以忽略不计,但加热它大幅提高其温度由$ΔT=10-200$ K由$z=10$,取决于CR注入光谱。这IGM预热是否是均匀的或群集周围的第一个星系取决于CR扩散,反过来又取决于自约束的效率,由于等离子体流的不稳定性,我们详细讨论。这方面是至关重要的,以解释未来的HI 21厘米的观测,可用于获得独特的信息,早期星系间磁场的强度和结构,和CR加速的效率的第一个超新星。

英文摘要:

Cosmic rays (CRs) govern the energetics of present-day galaxies and might have also played a pivotal role during the Epoch of Reionization. In particular, energy deposition by low-energy ($E \lesssim 10$ MeV) CRs accelerated by the first supernovae, might have heated and ionized the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) well before ($z \approx 20$) it was reionized, significantly adding to the similar effect by X-rays or dark matter annihilations. Using a simple, but physically motivated reionization model, and a thorough implementation of CR energy losses, we show that CRs contribute negligibly to IGM ionization, but heat it substantially, raising its temperature by $ΔT=10-200$ K by $z=10$, depending on the CR injection spectrum. Whether this IGM pre-heating is uniform or clustered around the first galaxies depends on CR diffusion, in turn governed by the efficiency of self-confinement due to plasma streaming instabilities that we discuss in detail. This aspect is crucial to interpret future HI 21 cm observations which can be used to gain unique information on the strength and structure of early intergalactic magnetic fields, and the efficiency of CR acceleration by the first supernovae.

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