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利用SKA望远镜在低频和中频观测星系团内部及之间的纤维结构

Filaments in and between galaxy clusters at low and mid-frequency with the SKA telescope

Valentina Vacca, Federica Govoni, Matteo Murgia, Francesca Loi, Luigina Feretti, Hui Li, Elia Battistelli, Torsten A. Enßlin, Paolo Marchegiani

AI总结:

本研究通过弥漫同步加速射电辐射,结合MHD模拟预测星系团射电特性,探索SKA及其前导/探路者在不同频段研究星系团和纤维结构磁场的潜力,发现偏振观测对大尺度磁场研究高效,中频仪器为首选工具。

摘要:

理解磁化宇宙是现代天体物理学的重大挑战,宇宙磁学已被公认为史上最具雄心的射电仪器——SKA望远镜的科学关键驱动力之一。本研究旨在通过弥漫同步加速射电辐射,探究SKA望远镜及其前导和探路者在研究星系团和纤维结构中磁场的潜力。宇宙网的星系团和纤维结构确实是研究湍流流体运动和大尺度磁场作用的独特实验室,而关于星系团磁场的大部分已知信息都来自灵敏的射电观测。基于宇宙学磁流体动力学(MHD)模拟,我们预测了由宇宙网纤维连接的一对星系团的射电特性(总强度和偏振)。我们利用理论预期,探索了偏振观测在50-350MHz和950-1760MHz频率范围内研究大尺度结构磁场的潜力。我们还给出了SKA前导和探路者(LOFAR2.0和MeerKAT+)对星系团偏振观测的预测。研究发现,偏振观测对大尺度磁场研究特别有效,因为它们受混淆噪声的影响不显著。中频射电望远镜前所未有的灵敏度和空间分辨率使其成为通过偏振数据研究这些源的首选仪器,可能让我们理解相对论电子的能量密度是否与磁场处于能量均分状态,或与热气体密度耦合。结果还表明,低频仪器也是研究弥漫同步加速射电辐射总强度和偏振的宝贵工具。

英文摘要:

Understanding the magnetised Universe is a major challenge in modern astrophysics, and cosmic magnetism has been acknowledged as one of the science key drivers of the most ambitious radio instrument ever planned, the SKA telescope. With this work, we aim to investigate the potential of the SKA telescope and its precursors and pathfinders in the study of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters and filaments through diffuse synchrotron radio emission. Galaxy clusters and filaments of the cosmic web are indeed unique laboratories to investigate turbulent fluid motions and large-scale magnetic fields in action and much of what is known about magnetic fields in galaxy clusters comes from sensitive radio observations. Based on cosmological MHD simulations, we predict radio properties (total intensity and polarisation) of a pair of galaxy clusters connected by a cosmic-web filament. We use our theoretical expectations to explore the potential of polarimetric observations to study large-scale structure magnetic fields in the frequency ranges 50-350MHz and 950-1760MHz. We also present predictions for galaxy cluster polarimetric observations with the SKA precursors and pathfinders (LOFAR2.0 and MeerKAT+). Our findings point out that polarisation observations are particularly powerful for the study of large-scale magnetic fields, since they are not significantly affected by confusion noise. The unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution of the intermediate frequency radio telescopes make them the favourite instruments for the study of these sources through polarimetric data, potentially allowing us to understand if the energy density of relativistic electrons is in equipartition with the magnetic field or coupled with the thermal gas density. Our results show that low frequency instruments represent as well a precious tool to study diffuse synchrotron emission in total intensity and polarisation.

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