Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
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Ph.D. Thesis University of Minnesota (USA)
Mathematics
Logic
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Acceleration Of Particles, Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays: Theory, Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure Of Universe, Methods: Numerical, Shock Waves, X-Rays: Galaxies: Clusters
Scientific paper
We have investigated acceleration of high energy cosmic rays in association with process of large scale structure formation. For the first time we have carried out numerical simulations of cosmological structure formation including explicitly the injection, acceleration and energy losses of high energy ions and electrons. Secondary electrons produced in hadronic collisions of cosmic ray ions and thermal background nuclei were also included in the calculation. Furthermore, we follow the passive evolution of the magnetic field (i.e. no magnetic force is included), generated at cosmic shocks through the Biermann battery mechanism. We first study the properties of cosmic shocks where particle acceleration takes place and find that most of the kinetic energy is processed by relatively weak shocks with Mach number of order 3-5. One of the main results of this thesis is that cosmic ray ions produced at these shocks store up a significant fraction of the total energy density and pressure inside today's clusters of galaxies. Furthermore, the radio synchrotron emission from secondary electrons in our simulation reproduces many observed features of radio halos. This result may suggest the important possibility that radio halos are a consequence of high non-thermal activity taking place inside clusters of galaxies. The non-thermal HXR excess of radiation observed in Coma cluster and Abell 2199 can be partially produced by inverse Compton emission of both primary and secondary electrons accelerated in simulated clusters with corresponding temperature, as they scatter the cosmic microwave background photons. The same mechanism, however, now involving the low energy electrons of the same distributions, generates an EUV luminosity that is far below the observed values.
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