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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 473, Issue 3, Pages 3095-3103Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2603
Keywords
MHD; cosmic rays; galaxies: clusters: general; gamma-rays: galaxies: clusters; radio continuum: general
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- NSF [AST-1616037]
- WARF Foundation
- Vilas Trust
- NASA [NNX15AK81G]
- NASA [NNX15AK81G, 807296] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Diffuse, extended radio emission in galaxy clusters, commonly referred to as radio haloes, indicate the presence of high energy cosmic ray (CR) electrons and cluster-wide magnetic fields. We can predict from theory the expected surface brightness of a radio halo, given magnetic field and CR density profiles. Previous studies have shown that the nature of CR transport can radically effect the expected radio halo emission from clusters (Wiener, Oh & Guo 2013). Reasonable levels of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave damping can lead to significant CR streaming speeds. But a careful treatment of MHD waves in a high beta plasma, as expected in cluster environments, reveals damping rates may be enhanced by a factor of beta(1/2). This leads to faster CR streaming and lower surface brightnesses than without this effect. In this work, we re-examine the simplified, 1D Coma cluster simulations (with radial magnetic fields) of Wiener et al. (2013) and discuss observable consequences of this high beta damping. Future work is required to study this effect in more realistic simulations.
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