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银河系热环状介质中的温度不对称性:由大麦哲伦星云引发

Temperature asymmetry in the Milky Way's hot circumgalactic medium induced by the Magellanic Clouds

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学卡普坦天文研究所)

Alexandru Oprea, Filippo Fraternali, Else Starkenburg, Thor Tepper-Garcia, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

AI总结:

研究通过流体动力学/N体模拟探讨大麦哲伦星云通过是否导致银河系热环状介质的温度不对称性,发现星云运动使银河系盘压缩南部环状介质气体,导致温度升高,与观测一致。

摘要:

银河系周围存在温度达数百万度的热弥散环状介质(CGM)。最近的eROSITA卫星X射线观测发现该热CGM存在显著的温度不对称性,南部半球比北部平均热12%。本文通过流体动力学/N体模拟研究大麦哲伦星云是否导致这种不对称性。模拟显示星云引起银河系盘相对运动达40 km/s,导致南部CGM气体压缩,整体温度升高。估计南北方温度差ΔT/T约为13-20%,与观测一致。发现这种温度不对称性是近期现象,始于约1亿年前。

英文摘要:

The Milky Way is surrounded by a hot diffuse circumgalactic medium (CGM) with temperatures of millions of degrees. Recent X-ray observations with the eROSITA satellite discovered a significant temperature asymmetry of this hot CGM, with the southern hemisphere being on average hotter than the northern one by a relative difference of $Δ T/T \approx 12\%$, where $T$ is averaged over the entire CGM. In this Letter, we investigate whether the passage of the Magellanic Clouds can be responsible for this asymmetry by means of a hydrodynamical/N-body simulation. In the simulation, the Magellanic Clouds induce a relative motion of the Milky Way's disc of up to 40 km/s. This motion leads to compression of the CGM gas in the southern hemisphere, resulting in an overall temperature increase in that region. We estimate a south-north temperature difference of $Δ T/T \approx 13-20\%$, consistent with the observations. We find that this temperature asymmetry is a recent phenomenon that began ~100 Myr ago.

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