期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 752, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/24
关键词
BL Lacertae objects: general; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: formation; gamma rays: general; intergalactic medium
资金
- CITA
- Beatrice D. Tremaine Fellowship
- Klaus Tschira Foundation
- National Science Foundation [NSF PHY05-51164]
A subset of blazars are powerful TeV emitters, dominating the extragalactic component of the very high energy gamma-ray universe (E greater than or similar to 100 GeV). These TeV gamma rays generate ultrarelativistic electron-positron pairs via pair production with the extragalactic background light. While it has generally been assumed that the kinetic energy of these pairs cascades to GeV gamma rays via inverse Compton scattering, we have argued in Broderick et al. (Paper I in this series) that plasma beam instabilities are capable of dissipating the pairs' energy locally on timescales short in comparison to the inverse Compton cooling time, heating the intergalactic medium (IGM) with a rate that is independent of density. This dramatically increases the entropy of the IGM after redshift z similar to 2, with a number of important implications for structure formation: (1) this suggests a scenario for the origin of the cool core (CC)/non-cool core (NCC) bimodality in galaxy clusters and groups. Early-forming galaxy groups are unaffected because they can efficiently radiate the additional entropy, developing a CC. However, late-forming groups do not have sufficient time to cool before the entropy is gravitationally reprocessed through successive mergers-counteracting cooling and potentially raising the core entropy further. This may result in a population of X-ray dim groups/clusters, consistent with X-ray stacking analyses of optically selected samples. Hence, blazar heating works differently than feedback by active galactic nuclei, which we show can balance radiative cooling but is unable to transform CC into NCC clusters on the buoyancy timescale due to the weak coupling between the mechanical energy to the cluster gas. (2) We predict a suppression of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) power spectrum template on angular scales smaller than 5' due to the globally reduced central pressure of groups and clusters forming after z similar to 1. This allows for a larger rms amplitude of the density power spectrum, sigma(8), and may reconcile SZ-inferred values with those by other cosmological probes even after allowing for a contribution due to patchy reionization. (3) Our redshift-dependent entropy floor increases the characteristic halo mass below which dwarf galaxies cannot form by a factor of approximately 10 (50) at mean density (in voids) over that found in models that include photoionization alone. This prevents the formation of late-forming dwarf galaxies (z less than or similar to 2) with masses ranging from 10(10) to 10(11) M-circle dot for redshifts z similar to 2 to 0, respectively. This may help resolve the missing satellite problem in the Milky Way of the low observed abundances of dwarf satellites compared to cold dark matter simulations and may bring the observed early star formation histories into agreement with galaxy formation models. At the same time, it explains the void phenomenon by suppressing the formation of galaxies within existing dwarf halos of masses <3 x 10(10) M-circle dot with a maximum circular velocity <60 km s(-1) for z less than or similar to 2, hence reconciling the number of dwarfs in low-density regions in simulations and the paucity of those in observations.
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