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团内介质磁流体动力学模型中活动星系核驱动的Turbulence受磁场的抑制

Suppression of AGN-Driven Turbulence by Magnetic Fields in a Magnetohydrodynamic Model of the Intracluster Medium

Christopher J. Bambic, Brian J. Morsony, Christopher S. Reynolds

摘要:

我们研究活动星系核反馈在星系团湍流加热中的作用。具体来说,我们分析了产生的g模式的湍流的超音速膨胀和浮力上升的活动星系核驱动的气泡。先前忽略磁场的研究表明,这一过程效率低下,只有不到1%的注入能量最终形成湍流。这种低效率主要是由于气泡在它们能够激发足够强的g模式之前被流体动力学不稳定性撕碎的事实。使用ICM和3D理想MHD模拟的平面平行模型,我们研究了大规模磁场的作用,该磁场能够覆盖在这些上升的气泡周围,使它们免受流体动力学不稳定性的影响。我们发现,虽然磁披覆似乎能够更好地保存活动星系核驱动的气泡,g模式的驱动和由此产生的湍流仍然是低效的。磁张力防止g模式过渡到非线性区域,抑制我们的模型ICM中的湍流。我们的工作突出的方式,理想的MHD是一个不充分的描述集群反馈过程中,我们讨论了未来的工作,如列入各向异性粘度作为一种手段,模拟高$β$等离子体动力学效应。这些结果表明,其他机制的加热ICM等离子体,如声波或宇宙射线可能是负责观察到的反馈在星系团的假设。

英文摘要:

We investigate the role of AGN feedback in turbulent heating of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we analyze the production of turbulence by g-modes generated by the supersonic expansion and buoyant rise of AGN-driven bubbles. Previous work which neglects magnetic fields has shown that this process is inefficient, with less than 1% of the injected energy ending up in turbulence. This inefficiency is primarily due to the fact that the bubbles are shredded apart by hydrodynamic instabilities before they can excite sufficiently strong g-modes. Using a plane-parallel model of the ICM and 3D ideal MHD simulations, we examine the role of a large-scale magnetic field which is able to drape around these rising bubbles, preserving them from hydrodynamic instabilities. We find that, while magnetic draping appears better able to preserve AGN-driven bubbles, the driving of g-modes and the resulting production of turbulence is still inefficient. The magnetic tension force prevents g-modes from transitioning into the nonlinear regime, suppressing turbulence in our model ICM. Our work highlights the ways in which ideal MHD is an insufficient description for the cluster feedback process, and we discuss future work such as the inclusion of anisotropic viscosity as a means of simulating high $β$ plasma kinetic effects. These results suggest the hypothesis that other mechanisms of heating the ICM plasma such as sound waves or cosmic rays may be responsible for observed feedback in galaxy clusters.

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