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星系团合并模拟中冷核弹性和熵混合的研究

A study of cool core resiliency and entropy mixing in simulations of galaxy cluster mergers

R. Valdarnini, C. L. Sarazin

摘要:

我们提出了一套二进制合并集群模拟的结果。流体动力学集群模拟采用平滑粒子流体动力学(SPH)制定的梯度误差大大减少,通过积分的方法。我们考虑绝热以及辐射模拟,其中我们包括气体冷却,恒星形成和能量反馈超新星。我们探讨合并的热力学结构上的最后合并残留物的团内气体的影响。特别是,我们研究了如何核心熵的合并过程中产生的初始冷却核心配置文件对中断和稳定性。为此,我们考虑了一系列的初始质量比和碰撞参量。我们的绝热合并模拟的最终熵分布与以前的发现(ZuHone 2011)非常一致,所有初始合并设置都破坏了冷核。对于等质量的离轴合并,我们发现,一个显着的贡献,最终的主核心熵是由于旋转运动,这是由潮汐扭矩引起的第一近心通道期间产生的流体动力学不稳定性。在辐射模拟中,冷核对加热过程更具弹性;尽管如此,它们只有在质量非常不相等的离轴合并的情况下才能保持其完整性。我们认为,这些结果是强大的气体物理模拟的变化,特别是包含AGN热反馈。我们的研究结果支持这样的观点,即观察到的核心集群形态自然出现在合并集群的背景下,并得出结论,合并角动量是一个关键参数,在塑造最终合并残留物的物理性质。

英文摘要:

We present results from a suite of binary merging cluster simulations. The hydrodynamical cluster simulations are performed employing a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formulation in which gradient errors are strongly reduced by means of an integral approach. We consider adiabatic as well as radiative simulations, in which we include gas cooling, star formation and energy feedback from supernovae. We explore the effects of merging on the thermodynamic structure of the intracluster gas of the final merger remnant. In particular, we study how core entropy is generated during the merging and the stability properties of the initial cool-core profile against disruption. To this end, we consider a range of initial mass ratio and impact parameters. Final entropy profiles of our adiabatic merging simulations are in good accord with previous findings (ZuHone 2011), with cool-cores being disrupted for all of the initial merging setups. For equal-mass off-axis mergers, we find that a significant contribution to the final primary core entropy is due to hydrodynamic instabilities generated by rotational motions, which are induced by tidal torques during the first pericenter passage. In radiative simulations, cool-cores are more resilient against heating processes; nonetheless, they are able to maintain their integrity only in the case of off-axis mergers with very unequal masses. We suggest that these results are robust against changes in the gas physical modeling, in particular to the inclusion of AGN thermal feedback. Our findings support the view that the observed core cluster morphology emerges naturally in a merging cluster context, and conclude that the merging angular momentum is a key parameter in shaping the thermodynamical properties of the final merger remnant.

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