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ICM对Cosmic Ray电子的再加速

Re-acceleration of Cosmic Ray Electrons by Multiple ICM Shocks

Hyesung Kang

摘要:

射电遗迹可能是由星系合并过程中在湍流的团内介质中诱发的多次激波产生的。Kang(2021)证明,与单次DSA相比,通过多次冲击的扩散冲击加速(DSA)对宇宙射线(CR)质子进行再加速可以提高加速效率并使CR谱平坦化。在这里,我们研究CR电子加速通过多次再加速考虑能量损失和减压的粒子分布和磁场在postshock区域之间的连续冲击通道。我们发现,如果前一次冲击比最后一次冲击强,且冲击通过间隔为$\lesssim20$ Myr,则重复再加速的累积效应是显著的。在这种情况下,CR谱和随后的辐射谱后面的最后一个冲击增强,变得比规范DSA幂律形式更平坦。结果,由无线电观测估计的激波马赫数往往高于最后一次激波的实际马赫数。因此,DSA的多个事件可以解释CR电子加速效率的提高和激波马赫数$M_{\rm X} \lesssim M_{\rm rad}$的差异,推断一些观察到的射电遗迹。

英文摘要:

Radio relics could be generated by multiple shocks induced in the turbulent intracluster medium during galaxy mergers. Kang (2021) demonstrated that the re-acceleration of cosmic ray (CR) protons via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) by multiple shocks could enhance the acceleration efficiency and flatten the CR spectrum, compared to a single episode of DSA. Here we examine the CR electron acceleration through multiple re-acceleration by considering energy losses and decompression of the particle distribution and magnetic fields in the postshock region between consecutive shock passages. We find that the accumulated effects of repeated re-acceleration are significant, if preceding shocks are stronger than the last shock and the shock passage interval is $\lesssim20$ Myr. In such cases, both the CR spectrum and the ensuing radiation spectrum behind the last shock are enhanced and become flatter than the canonical DSA power-law forms. As a result, the shock Mach number estimated from radio observations tends be higher than the actual Mach number of the last shock. Thus, multiple episodes of DSA may explain the enhanced acceleration efficiency for CR electrons and the discrepancy of shock Mach numbers, $M_{\rm X} \lesssim M_{\rm rad}$, inferred for some observed radio relics.

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