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arXiv 2003.12306astro-ph.COastro-ph.IM
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用MASCLET计算宇宙磁场:对星系团的应用

Cosmic magnetic fields with MASCLET: an application to galaxy clusters

Vicent Quilis, José Ma. Martí, Susana Planelles

摘要:

我们描述并测试了一个新版本的自适应网格细化(AMR)宇宙学代码MASCLET。新版本的代码包括所有的成分,其以前的版本加上一个描述的磁场的演变下的理想磁流体动力学(MHD)的近似。为了保持MHD的无发散条件,实现了Dedner等人(2002)的原始发散清除算法。我们提出了一套著名的一维和二维测试,如几个激波管问题,快速转子和Orszag-Tang涡。所有试验中代码的性能都很好,二维试验中估计的相对误差中值$\nabla \cdot {\bf B}$小于快速转子试验的$5 \times 10^{-5}$和Orszag-Tang涡的$5 \times 10^{-3}$。作为天体物理应用程序的代码,我们提出了一个模拟的宇宙盒的40 Mpc的边长,其中一个原始的均匀的同向磁场的强度为0.1 nG的种子。模拟显示了磁场是如何沿着气体细丝传导的,并在星系团内集中和放大。与纯压缩的预期值相比,揭示了由星团中心区域的湍流引起的磁场的额外放大。$\sim 1 μ$ G级的值在$z\sim 0$的聚类中获得,$\nabla \cdot {\bf B}$的中值相对误差低于0.4\%。适当的描述的动态的磁场和他们可能的观测对应在未来的设施的影响进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

We describe and test a new version of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological code MASCLET. The new version of the code includes all the ingredients of its previous version plus a description of the evolution of the magnetic field under the approximation of the ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). To preserve the divergence-free condition of MHD, the original divergence cleaning algorithm of Dedner et al. (2002) is implemented. We present a set of well-known 1D and 2D tests, such as several shock-tube problems, the fast rotor and the Orszag-Tang vortex. The performance of the code in all the tests is excellent with estimated median relative errors of $\nabla \cdot {\bf B}$ in the 2D tests smaller than $5 \times 10^{-5}$ for the fast rotor test, and $5 \times 10^{-3}$ for the Orszag-Tang vortex. As an astrophysical application of the code, we present a simulation of a cosmological box of 40 comoving Mpc side length in which a primordial uniform comoving magnetic field of strength 0.1 nG is seeded. The simulation shows how the magnetic field is channelled along the filaments of gas and is concentrated and amplified within galaxy clusters. Comparison with the values expected from pure compression reveals an additional amplification of the magnetic field caused by turbulence in the central region of the cluster. Values of the order of $\sim 1 μ$G are obtained in clusters at $z\sim 0$ with median relative errors of $\nabla \cdot {\bf B}$ below 0.4\%. The implications of a proper description of the dynamics of the magnetic field and their possible observational counterparts in future facilities are discussed.

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