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1.
Clusters of galaxies are self-gravitating systems of mass ∼1014–1015
h
−1 M⊙ and size ∼1–3h
−1 Mpc. Their mass budget consists of dark matter (∼80%, on average), hot diffuse intracluster plasma (≲20%) and a small fraction
of stars, dust, and cold gas, mostly locked in galaxies. In most clusters, scaling relations between their properties, like
mass, galaxy velocity dispersion, X-ray luminosity and temperature, testify that the cluster components are in approximate
dynamical equilibrium within the cluster gravitational potential well. However, spatially inhomogeneous thermal and non-thermal
emission of the intracluster medium (ICM), observed in some clusters in the X-ray and radio bands, and the kinematic and morphological
segregation of galaxies are a signature of non-gravitational processes, ongoing cluster merging and interactions. Both the
fraction of clusters with these features, and the correlation between the dynamical and morphological properties of irregular
clusters and the surrounding large-scale structure increase with redshift.
In the current bottom-up scenario for the formation of cosmic structure, where tiny fluctuations of the otherwise homogeneous
primordial density field are amplified by gravity, clusters are the most massive nodes of the filamentary large-scale structure
of the cosmic web and form by anisotropic and episodic accretion of mass, in agreement with most of the observational evidence.
In this model of the universe dominated by cold dark matter, at the present time most baryons are expected to be in a diffuse
component rather than in stars and galaxies; moreover, ∼50% of this diffuse component has temperature ∼0.01–1 keV and permeates
the filamentary distribution of the dark matter. The temperature of this Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) increases with
the local density and its search in the outer regions of clusters and lower density regions has been the quest of much recent
observational effort.
Over the last thirty years, an impressive coherent picture of the formation and evolution of cosmic structures has emerged
from the intense interplay between observations, theory and numerical experiments. Future efforts will continue to test whether
this picture keeps being valid, needs corrections or suffers dramatic failures in its predictive power. 相似文献
2.
The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is thought to contribute about 40–50% to the baryonic budget at the present evolution
stage of the universe. The observed large scale structure is likely to be due to gravitational growth of density fluctuations
in the post-inflation era. The evolving cosmic web is governed by non-linear gravitational growth of the initially weak density
fluctuations in the dark energy dominated cosmology. Non-linear structure formation, accretion and merging processes, star
forming and AGN activity produce gas shocks in the WHIM. Shock waves are converting a fraction of the gravitation power to
thermal and non-thermal emission of baryonic/leptonic matter. They provide the most likely way to power the luminous matter
in the WHIM. The plasma shocks in the WHIM are expected to be collisionless. Collisionless shocks produce a highly non-equilibrium
state with anisotropic temperatures and a large differences in ion and electron temperatures. We discuss the ion and electron
heating by the collisionless shocks and then review the plasma processes responsible for the Coulomb equilibration and collisional
ionisation equilibrium of oxygen ions in the WHIM. MHD-turbulence produced by the strong collisionless shocks could provide
a sizeable non-thermal contribution to the observed Doppler parameter of the UV line spectra of the WHIM. 相似文献
3.
In this paper we review the possible mechanisms for production of non-thermal electrons which are responsible for the observed
non-thermal radiation in clusters of galaxies. Our primary focus is on non-thermal Bremsstrahlung and inverse Compton scattering,
that produce hard X-ray emission. We first give a brief review of acceleration mechanisms and point out that in most astrophysical
situations, and in particular for the intracluster medium, shocks, turbulence and plasma waves play a crucial role. We also
outline how the effects of the turbulence can be accounted for. Using a generic model for turbulence and acceleration, we
then consider two scenarios for production of non-thermal radiation. The first is motivated by the possibility that hard X-ray
emission is due to non-thermal Bremsstrahlung by nonrelativistic particles and attempts to produce non-thermal tails by accelerating
the electrons from the background plasma with an initial Maxwellian distribution. For acceleration rates smaller than the
Coulomb energy loss rate, the effect of energising the plasma is to primarily heat the plasma with little sign of a distinct
non-thermal tail. Such tails are discernible only for acceleration rates comparable or larger than the Coulomb loss rate.
However, these tails are accompanied by significant heating and they are present for a short time of <106 years, which is also the time that the tail will be thermalised. A longer period of acceleration at such rates will result
in a runaway situation with most particles being accelerated to very high energies. These more exact treatments confirm the
difficulty with this model, first pointed out by Petrosian (Astrophys. J. 557:560, 2001). Such non-thermal tails, even if possible, can only explain the hard X-ray but not the radio emission which needs GeV or
higher energy electrons. For these and for production of hard X-rays by the inverse Compton model, we need the second scenario
where there is injection and subsequent acceleration of relativistic electrons. It is shown that a steady state situation,
for example arising from secondary electrons produced from cosmic ray proton scattering by background protons, will most likely
lead to flatter than required electron spectra or it requires a short escape time of the electrons from the cluster. An episodic
injection of relativistic electrons, presumably from galaxies or AGN, and/or episodic generation of turbulence and shocks
by mergers can result in an electron spectrum consistent with observations but for only a short period of less than one billion
years. 相似文献
4.
In this paper we review the current predictions of numerical simulations for the origin and observability of the warm hot
intergalactic medium (WHIM), the diffuse gas that contains up to 50 per cent of the baryons at z∼0. During structure formation, gravitational accretion shocks emerging from collapsing regions gradually heat the intergalactic
medium (IGM) to temperatures in the range T∼105–107 K. The WHIM is predicted to radiate most of its energy in the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray bands and to contribute a significant
fraction of the soft X-ray background emission. While O vi and C iv absorption systems arising in the cooler fraction of the WHIM with T∼105–105.5 K are seen in FUSE and Hubble Space Telescope observations, models agree that current X-ray telescopes such as Chandra and XMM-Newton do not have enough sensitivity to detect the hotter WHIM. However, future missions such as Constellation-X and XEUS might be able to detect both emission lines and absorption systems from highly ionised atoms such as O vii, O viii and Fe xvii. 相似文献
5.
F. Durret J. S. Kaastra J. Nevalainen T. Ohashi N. Werner 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):51-70
An excess over the extrapolation to the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray ranges of the thermal emission from the hot intracluster
medium has been detected in a number of clusters of galaxies. We briefly present each of the satellites (EUVE, ROSAT PSPC
and BeppoSAX, and presently XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku) and their corresponding instrumental issues, which are responsible
for the fact that this soft excess remains controversial in a number of cases. We then review the evidence for this soft X-ray
excess and discuss the possible mechanisms (thermal and non-thermal) which could be responsible for this emission. 相似文献
6.
J. S. Kaastra F. B. S. Paerels F. Durret S. Schindler P. Richter 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):155-190
We discuss the different physical processes that are important to understand the thermal X-ray emission and absorption spectra
of the diffuse gas in clusters of galaxies and the warm-hot intergalactic medium. The ionisation balance, line and continuum
emission and absorption properties are reviewed and several practical examples are given that illustrate the most important
diagnostic features in the X-ray spectra. 相似文献
7.
C. Ferrari F. Govoni S. Schindler A. M. Bykov Y. Rephaeli 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):93-118
We review observations of extended regions of radio emission in clusters; these include diffuse emission in ‘relics’, and
the large central regions commonly referred to as ‘halos’. The spectral observations, as well as Faraday rotation measurements
of background and cluster radio sources, provide the main evidence for large-scale intracluster magnetic fields and significant
densities of relativistic electrons. Implications from these observations on acceleration mechanisms of these electrons are
reviewed, including turbulent and shock acceleration, and also the origin of some of the electrons in collisions of relativistic
protons by ambient protons in the (thermal) gas. Improved knowledge of non-thermal phenomena in clusters requires more extensive
and detailed radio measurements; we briefly review prospects for future observations. 相似文献
8.
N. Werner F. Durret T. Ohashi S. Schindler R. P. C. Wiersma 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):337-362
Because of their deep gravitational potential wells, clusters of galaxies retain all the metals produced by the stellar populations
of the member galaxies. Most of these metals reside in the hot plasma which dominates the baryon content of clusters. This
makes them excellent laboratories for the study of the nucleosynthesis and chemical enrichment history of the Universe. Here
we review the history, current possibilities and limitations of the abundance studies, and the present observational status
of X-ray measurements of the chemical composition of the intra-cluster medium. We summarise the latest progress in using the
abundance patterns in clusters to put constraints on theoretical models of supernovae and we show how cluster abundances provide
new insights into the star-formation history of the Universe. 相似文献
9.
10.
In this paper we review the possible radiation mechanisms for the observed non-thermal emission in clusters of galaxies, with
a primary focus on the radio and hard X-ray emission. We show that the difficulty with the non-thermal, non-relativistic Bremsstrahlung
model for the hard X-ray emission, first pointed out by Petrosian (Astrophys. J. 557, 560, 2001) using a cold target approximation, is somewhat alleviated when one treats the problem more exactly by including the fact
that the background plasma particle energies are on average a factor of 10 below the energy of the non-thermal particles.
This increases the lifetime of the non-thermal particles, and as a result decreases the extreme energy requirement, but at
most by a factor of three. We then review the synchrotron and so-called inverse Compton emission by relativistic electrons,
which when compared with observations can constrain the value of the magnetic field and energy of relativistic electrons.
This model requires a low value of the magnetic field which is far from the equipartition value. We briefly review the possibilities
of gamma-ray emission and prospects for GLAST observations. We also present a toy model of the non-thermal electron spectra that are produced by the acceleration mechanisms
discussed in an accompanying paper Petrosian and Bykov (Space Sci. Rev., 2008, this issue, Chap. 11). 相似文献
11.
Large-scale structure formation, accretion and merging processes, AGN activity produce cosmological gas shocks. The shocks
convert a fraction of the energy of gravitationally accelerated flows to internal energy of the gas. Being the main gas-heating
agent, cosmological shocks could amplify magnetic fields and accelerate energetic particles via the multi-fluid plasma relaxation
processes. We first discuss the basic properties of standard single-fluid shocks. Cosmological plasma shocks are expected
to be collisionless. We then review the plasma processes responsible for the microscopic structure of collisionless shocks.
A tiny fraction of the particles crossing the shock is injected into the non-thermal energetic component that could get a
substantial part of the ram pressure power dissipated at the shock. The energetic particles penetrate deep into the shock
upstream producing an extended shock precursor. Scaling relations for postshock ion temperature and entropy as functions of
shock velocity in strong collisionless multi-fluid shocks are discussed. We show that the multi-fluid nature of collisionless
shocks results in excessive gas compression, energetic particle acceleration, precursor gas heating, magnetic field amplification
and non-thermal emission. Multi-fluid shocks provide a reduced gas entropy production and could also modify the observable
thermodynamic scaling relations for clusters of galaxies. 相似文献
12.
The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) arises from shock-heated gas collapsing in large-scale filaments and probably harbours
a substantial fraction of the baryons in the local Universe. Absorption-line measurements in the ultraviolet (UV) and in the
X-ray band currently represent the best method to study the WHIM at low redshifts. We here describe the physical properties
of the WHIM and the concepts behind WHIM absorption line measurements of H i and high ions such as O vi, O vii, and O viii in the far-ultraviolet and X-ray band. We review results of recent WHIM absorption line studies carried out with UV and X-ray
satellites such as FUSE, HST, Chandra, and XMM-Newton and discuss their implications for our knowledge of the WHIM. 相似文献
13.
Modern hydrodynamical simulations offer nowadays a powerful means to trace the evolution of the X-ray properties of the intra-cluster
medium (ICM) during the cosmological history of the hierarchical build up of galaxy clusters. In this paper we review the
current status of these simulations and how their predictions fare in reproducing the most recent X-ray observations of clusters.
After briefly discussing the shortcomings of the self-similar model, based on assuming that gravity only drives the evolution
of the ICM, we discuss how the processes of gas cooling and non-gravitational heating are expected to bring model predictions
into better agreement with observational data. We then present results from the hydrodynamical simulations, performed by different
groups, and how they compare with observational data. As terms of comparison, we use X-ray scaling relations between mass,
luminosity, temperature and pressure, as well as the profiles of temperature and entropy. The results of this comparison can
be summarised as follows: (a) simulations, which include gas cooling, star formation and supernova feedback, are generally successful in reproducing the
X-ray properties of the ICM outside the core regions; (b) simulations generally fail in reproducing the observed “cool core” structure, in that they have serious difficulties in
regulating overcooling, thereby producing steep negative central temperature profiles. This discrepancy calls for the need
of introducing other physical processes, such as energy feedback from active galactic nuclei, which should compensate the
radiative losses of the gas with high density, low entropy and short cooling time, which is observed to reside in the innermost
regions of galaxy clusters. 相似文献
14.
The fastest pulsar and the slowest nova; the oldest galaxies and the youngest stars; the weirdest life forms and the commonest
dwarfs; the highest energy particles and the lowest energy photons. These were some of the extremes of Astrophysics 2006.
We attempt also to bring you updates on things of which there is currently only one (habitable planets, the Sun, and the Universe)
and others of which there are always many, like meteors and molecules, black holes and binaries. 相似文献
15.
K. Dolag S. Borgani S. Schindler A. Diaferio A. M. Bykov 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):229-268
Modern cosmological observations allow us to study in great detail the evolution and history of the large scale structure
hierarchy. The fundamental problem of accurate constraints on the cosmological parameters, within a given cosmological model,
requires precise modelling of the observed structure. In this paper we briefly review the current most effective techniques
of large scale structure simulations, emphasising both their advantages and shortcomings. Starting with basics of the direct
N-body simulations appropriate to modelling cold dark matter evolution, we then discuss the direct-sum technique GRAPE, particle-mesh (PM) and hybrid methods, combining the PM and the tree algorithms. Simulations of baryonic matter in the Universe often use hydrodynamic codes based on both particle
methods that discretise mass, and grid-based methods. We briefly describe Eulerian grid methods, and also some variants of
Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) methods. 相似文献
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17.
Frits Paerels Jelle Kaastra Takaya Ohashi Philipp Richter Andrei Bykov Jukka Nevalainen 《Space Science Reviews》2008,134(1-4):405-418
We briefly review capabilities and requirements for future instrumentation in UV- and X-ray astronomy that can contribute
to advancing our understanding of the diffuse, highly ionised intergalactic medium. 相似文献
18.
The Geology of Mercury: The View Prior to the MESSENGER Mission 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
James W. Head Clark R. Chapman Deborah L. Domingue S. Edward Hawkins III William E. McClintock Scott L. Murchie Louise M. Prockter Mark S. Robinson Robert G. Strom Thomas R. Watters 《Space Science Reviews》2007,131(1-4):41-84
Mariner 10 and Earth-based observations have revealed Mercury, the innermost of the terrestrial planetary bodies, to be an
exciting laboratory for the study of Solar System geological processes. Mercury is characterized by a lunar-like surface,
a global magnetic field, and an interior dominated by an iron core having a radius at least three-quarters of the radius of
the planet. The 45% of the surface imaged by Mariner 10 reveals some distinctive differences from the Moon, however, with
major contractional fault scarps and huge expanses of moderate-albedo Cayley-like smooth plains of uncertain origin. Our current
image coverage of Mercury is comparable to that of telescopic photographs of the Earth’s Moon prior to the launch of Sputnik
in 1957. We have no photographic images of one-half of the surface, the resolution of the images we do have is generally poor
(∼1 km), and as with many lunar telescopic photographs, much of the available surface of Mercury is distorted by foreshortening
due to viewing geometry, or poorly suited for geological analysis and impact-crater counting for age determinations because
of high-Sun illumination conditions. Currently available topographic information is also very limited. Nonetheless, Mercury
is a geological laboratory that represents (1) a planet where the presence of a huge iron core may be due to impact stripping
of the crust and upper mantle, or alternatively, where formation of a huge core may have resulted in a residual mantle and
crust of potentially unusual composition and structure; (2) a planet with an internal chemical and mechanical structure that
provides new insights into planetary thermal history and the relative roles of conduction and convection in planetary heat
loss; (3) a one-tectonic-plate planet where constraints on major interior processes can be deduced from the geology of the
global tectonic system; (4) a planet where volcanic resurfacing may not have played a significant role in planetary history
and internally generated volcanic resurfacing may have ceased at ∼3.8 Ga; (5) a planet where impact craters can be used to
disentangle the fundamental roles of gravity and mean impactor velocity in determining impact crater morphology and morphometry;
(6) an environment where global impact crater counts can test fundamental concepts of the distribution of impactor populations
in space and time; (7) an extreme environment in which highly radar-reflective polar deposits, much more extensive than those
on the Moon, can be better understood; (8) an extreme environment in which the basic processes of space weathering can be
further deduced; and (9) a potential end-member in terrestrial planetary body geological evolution in which the relationships
of internal and surface evolution can be clearly assessed from both a tectonic and volcanic point of view. In the half-century
since the launch of Sputnik, more than 30 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon, yet only now is a second spacecraft en route
to Mercury. The MESSENGER mission will address key questions about the geologic evolution of Mercury; the depth and breadth
of the MESSENGER data will permit the confident reconstruction of the geological history and thermal evolution of Mercury
using new imaging, topography, chemistry, mineralogy, gravity, magnetic, and environmental data. 相似文献
19.
M. E. Wiedenbeck W. R. Binns A. C. Cummings A. J. Davis G. A. de Nolfo M. H. Israel R. A. Leske R. A. Mewaldt E. C. Stone T. T. von Rosenvinge 《Space Science Reviews》2007,130(1-4):415-429
The galactic cosmic rays arriving near Earth, which include both stable and long-lived nuclides from throughout the periodic
table, consist of a mix of stellar nucleosynthesis products accelerated by shocks in the interstellar medium (ISM) and fragmentation
products made by high-energy collisions during propagation through the ISM. Through the study of the composition and spectra
of a variety of elements and isotopes in this diverse sample, models have been developed for the origin, acceleration, and
transport of galactic cosmic rays. We present an overview of the current understanding of these topics emphasizing the insights
that have been gained through investigations in the charge and energy ranges Z≲30 and E/M≲1 GeV/nuc, and particularly those using data obtained from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer on NASA’s Advanced Composition
Explorer mission. 相似文献