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冷却流星系团中暗条的 H$α$ 与 X 射线面亮度相关性

H$α$-X-ray Surface Brightness Correlation for Filaments in Cooling Flow Clusters

Valeria Olivares, Adrien Picquenot, Yuanyuan Su, Massimo Gaspari, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Fiorella L. Polles, Paul Nulsen

AI总结:

本研究利用七个 X 射线明亮的冷却流星系团样本,发现暗条的 X 射线与 H$α$ 面亮度在两个数量级上存在紧密正相关,揭示了多相暗条不同气体相之间的联系。

摘要:

冷却流星系团中的大质量星系显示出活动星系核(AGN)反馈的明显证据。X 射线和射电联合观测表明,AGN 射电喷流会推开周围的热气体,并在热星系团内介质(ICM)中形成空腔。这些系统拥有复杂的千秒差距尺度多相暗条结构,从温暖的电离态(10,000 K)到寒冷的分子态($<$100 K)。人们认为这些引人注目的团块状暗条是热 ICM 发生热不稳定冷却的自然结果,可能由反馈过程触发,同时通过混沌冷吸积(CCA)为 AGN 提供能量。然而,对暗条形成机制的详细限制仍不确定,不同气体相之间的联系也有待完全揭示。通过利用七个 X 射线明亮的冷却流星系团样本,我们发现暗条的 X 射线面亮度与 H$α$ 面亮度在两个数量级上存在紧密的正相关性,正如在剥离尾迹中所发现的那样。

英文摘要:

Massive galaxies in cooling flow clusters display clear evidence of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Joint X-ray and radio observations have shown that AGN radio jets push aside the surrounding hot gas and form cavities in the hot intracluster medium (ICM). These systems host complex, kiloparsec-scale, multiphase filamentary structures, from warm ionized (10,000 K) to cold molecular ($<$100 K). These striking clumpy filaments are believed to be a natural outcome of thermally unstable cooling from the hot ICM, likely triggered by feedback processes while contributing to feeding the AGN via Chaotic Cold Accretion (CCA). However, the detailed constraints on the formation mechanism of the filaments are still uncertain, and the connection between the different gas phases has to be fully unveiled. By leveraging a sample of seven X-ray bright cooling-flow clusters, we have discovered a tight positive correlation between the X-ray surface brightness and the H$α$ surface brightness of the filaments over two orders of magnitude, as also found in stripped tails.

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