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arXiv 2006.09240astro-ph.GA
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螺旋星系中通过磁臂加热的热气。关于M83

Hot gas heating via magnetic arms in spiral galaxies. The case of M 83

M. Wezgowiec, M. Ehle, M. Soida, R. -J. Dettmar, R. Beck, M. Urbanik

摘要:

重联加热被认为是星际介质加热的一个潜在来源。在一些星系中,在旋臂之间发现了显著的偏振射电辐射。这种发射有一种类似于星系螺旋结构的“磁臂”形式。重联效应可以将湍流磁场的部分能量转化为周围介质的热能,留下更有序的磁场,正如在磁臂中观察到的那样。灵敏的无线电和X射线数据的大设计的螺旋星系M 83用于详细分析磁场与热气体的可能的相互作用,包括气体加热的磁重联效应的签名搜索。磁场强度和来自无线电发射的能量进行了比较,从模型计算的热气体的参数适合敏感的X射线光谱的热气体发射。现有的X射线数据使我们能够区分两个热的组成部分晕的M 83。我们发现在臂间区域的热气体的平均温度略高,这导致每个粒子的能量更高,并伴随着磁场的能量密度的降低。观测到的旋臂和臂间区域之间能量收支的差异表明,与另一个螺旋星系NGC 6946的情况类似,我们可能在臂间区域观察到气体因磁重联效应而加热的迹象。这些效应对磁场的湍流分量作用更有效,预计在螺旋臂中更强。然而,根据目前的数据,只能在臂间区域追踪它们,那里的恒星形成和由此产生的湍流很低。

英文摘要:

Reconnection heating has been considered as a potential source of the heating of the interstellar medium. In some galaxies, significant polarised radio emission has been found between the spiral arms. This emission has a form of `magnetic arms' that resembles the spiral structure of the galaxy. Reconnection effects could convert some of the energy of the turbulent magnetic field into the thermal energy of the surrounding medium, leaving more ordered magnetic fields, as is observed in the magnetic arms. Sensitive radio and X-ray data for the grand-design spiral galaxy M 83 are used for a detailed analysis of the possible interactions of magnetic fields with hot gas, including a search for signatures of gas heating by magnetic reconnection effects. Magnetic field strengths and energies derived from the radio emission are compared with the parameters of the hot gas calculated from the model fits to sensitive X-ray spectra of the hot gas emission. The available X-ray data allowed us to distinguish two thermal components in the halo of M 83. We found slightly higher average temperatures of the hot gas in the interarm regions, which results in higher energies per particle and is accompanied by a decrease in the energy density of the magnetic fields. The observed differences in the energy budget between the spiral arms and the interarm regions suggest that, similar to the case of another spiral galaxy NGC 6946, we may be observing hints for gas heating by magnetic reconnection effects in the interarm regions. These effects, which act more efficiently on the turbulent component of the magnetic field, are expected to be stronger in the spiral arms. However, with the present data it is only possible to trace them in the interarm regions, where the star formation and the resulting turbulence is low.

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