Active galactic nuclei heating and dissipative processes in galaxy clusters

被引:72
作者
Brüggen, M
Ruszkowski, M
Hallman, E
机构
[1] Int Jacobs Univ Bremen, D-28759 Bremen, Germany
[2] Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Ctr Astrophys & Space Astron, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
关键词
cooling flows; galaxies : active; galaxies : clusters : general; X-rays : galaxies;
D O I
10.1086/432112
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Recent X- ray observations reveal growing evidence for heating by active galactic nuclei ( AGNs) in clusters and groups of galaxies. AGN outflows play a crucial role in explaining the riddle of cooling flows and the entropy problem in clusters. Here we study the effect of AGNs on the intracluster medium in a cosmological simulation using the adaptive mesh refinement FLASH code. We pay particular attention to the effects of conductivity and viscosity on the dissipation of weak shocks generated by the AGN activity in a realistic galaxy cluster. Our three- dimensional simulations demonstrate that both viscous and conductive dissipation play an important role in distributing the mechanical energy injected by the AGNs, offsetting radiative cooling and injecting entropy to the gas. These processes are important even when the transport coefficients are at a level of 10% of the Spitzer value. Provided that both conductivity and viscosity are suppressed by a comparable amount, conductive dissipation is likely to dominate over viscous dissipation. Nevertheless, viscous effects may still affect the dynamics of the gas and contribute a significant amount of dissipation compared to radiative cooling. We also present synthetic Chandra observations. We show that the simulated buoyant bubbles inflated by the AGN, and weak shocks associated with them, are detectable with the Chandra observatory.
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页码:740 / 749
页数:10
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