Interaction of Fanaroff-Riley class II jets with a magnetised intra-cluster medium

Details Interaction of Fanaroff-Riley class II jets with a magnetised intra-cluster medium Interaction of Fanaroff-Riley class II jets with a magnetised intra-cluster medium

2011-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/1111.0971v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

3 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the "Magnetic Fields in the Universe III" meeting, Zakopane, PL

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We present 3-D MHD and synthetic numerical simulations to follow the evolution of randomly magnetized intra-cluster medium plasma under the effects of powerful, light, hypersonic and bipolar jets. We prescribe the cluster magnetic field (CMF) as a Gaussian random field with power law energy spectrum tuned to the expectation for Kolmogorov turbulence. We investigate the power of jets and the viewing angle used for the synthetic Rotation Measure (RM) observations. We find the model radio sources introduce and amplify fluctuations on the RM statistical properties; the average RM and the RM standard deviation are increased by the action of the jets. This may lead to overestimations of the CMFs' strength up to 70%. The effect correlates with the jet power. Jets distort and amplify CMFs especially near the edges of the lobes and the jets' heads. Thus the RM structure functions are flattened at scales comparable to the source size. Jet-produced RM enhancements depend on the orientation of the jet axis to the line of sight and are thus more apparent in quasars than in radio galaxies.

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