期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 720, 期 1, 页码 L97-L101出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/720/1/L97
关键词
convection; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; instabilities; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); plasmas
资金
- NSF [AST 09-08212]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0908212] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We analyze the linear stability of a dilute, hot plasma, taking into account the effects of stratification and anisotropic thermal conduction. The work is motivated by attempts to understand the dynamics of the intracluster medium in galaxy clusters. We show that magnetic field configurations that nominally stabilize either the heat-flux driven buoyancy instability (associated with a positive thermal gradient) or the magnetothermal instability (negative thermal gradient) can lead to previously unrecognized g-mode overstabilities. The driving source of the overstability is either radiative cooling (positive temperature gradient) or the heat flux itself (negative temperature gradient). While the implications of these overstabilities have yet to be explored, we speculate that the cold fronts observed in many relaxed galaxy clusters may be related to their nonlinear evolution.
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