期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 712, 期 2, 页码 L194-L198出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/712/2/L194
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; instabilities; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); plasmas
资金
- NASA through Chandra Postdoctoral Fellowship [PF7-80049, PF8-90054]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- NASA [NNX10AC95G]
- NASA [NNX10AC95G, 135932] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We study the effects of externally imposed turbulence on the thermal properties of galaxy cluster cores, using three-dimensional numerical simulations including magnetic fields, anisotropic thermal conduction, and radiative cooling. The imposed stirring crudely approximates the effects of galactic wakes, waves generated by galaxies moving through the intracluster medium, and/or turbulence produced by a central active galactic nucleus. The simulated clusters exhibit a strong bimodality. Modest levels of turbulence, similar to 100 km s(-1) similar to 10% of the sound speed, suppress the heat-flux-driven buoyancy instability (HBI), resulting in an isotropically tangled magnetic field and a quasi-stable, high entropy, thermal equilibrium with no cooling catastrophe. Thermal conduction dominates the heating of the cluster core, but turbulent mixing is critical because it suppresses the HBI and (to a lesser extent) the thermal instability. Lower levels of turbulent mixing (less than or similar to 100 km s(-1)) are insufficient to suppress the HBI, rapidly leading to a thermal runaway and a cool-core cluster. Remarkably, then, small fluctuations in the level of turbulence in galaxy cluster cores can initiate transitions between cool-core (low entropy) and non-cool-core (high entropy) states.
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