Simulation of radio plasma in clusters of galaxies

Details Simulation of radio plasma in clusters of galaxies Simulation of radio plasma in clusters of galaxies

2001-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108486v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 545

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to MNRAS. Full resolution colour figures at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~ensslin/Paper/hydra.ps.gz

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05233.x

We present three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of buoyant gas in a typical cluster environment. The hot matter was injected continuously into a small region off-set from the cluster centre. In agreement with previous analytic estimates we found that the bubbles evolve very differently depending on their luminosity. Using tracer particles we computed radio maps of the bubbles based on different assumptions about the magnetic field. In the radio band the bubbles closely resemble FRI sources. For the bubbles to be detectable for long enough to account for FRI sources, we found that reacceleration has to take place. The bubbles are generally difficult to detect, both, in the radio and in the X-ray band. Thus it is possible to hide a significant amount of energy in the form of bubbles in clusters. Finally, we compute the efficiency of the bubbles to stir the ICM and find that recurrent low-power sources may be fairly effective in mixing the inner cluster region.

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