Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction
© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society Understanding how baryonic processes shape the intracluster medium (ICM) is of critical importance to the next generation of galaxy cluster surveys. However, many models of structure formation negle...
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| author | Barnes, David J Kannan, Rahul Vogelsberger, Mark Pfrommer, Christoph Puchwein, Ewald Weinberger, Rainer Springel, Volker Pakmor, Rüdiger Nelson, Dylan Marinacci, Federico Pillepich, Annalisa Torrey, Paul Hernquist, Lars |
| author_facet | Barnes, David J Kannan, Rahul Vogelsberger, Mark Pfrommer, Christoph Puchwein, Ewald Weinberger, Rainer Springel, Volker Pakmor, Rüdiger Nelson, Dylan Marinacci, Federico Pillepich, Annalisa Torrey, Paul Hernquist, Lars |
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| description | © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society Understanding how baryonic processes shape the intracluster medium (ICM) is of critical importance to the next generation of galaxy cluster surveys. However, many models of structure formation neglect potentially important physical processes, like anisotropic thermal conduction (ATC). We explore the impact of ATC on the prevalence of cool-cores (CCs) via 12 pairs of magnetohydrodynamical galaxy cluster simulations, using the IllustrisTNG model with and without ATC. Examining their properties we find that the addition of ATC has a negligible impact on the median rotation measure, plasma β, the magnetic field-radial direction angle, and the effective Spitzer value. However, the scatter in the angle and effective Spitzer value is 50 per cent larger with ATC because the magnetic field aligns with the azimuthal direction to a greater extent in relaxed clusters. ATC’s impact varies from cluster to cluster and with CC criterion, but its inclusion produces a systematic shift to larger CC fractions at z = 0 for all CC criteria considered. Additionally, the inclusion of ATC flattens the CC fraction redshift evolution, helping to ease the tension with the observed evolution. With ATC, the energy required for the central black hole to self-regulate is reduced by 24 per cent and the gas fraction at 0.01 r500 increases by 100 per cent, producing larger CC fractions. ATC makes the ICM unstable to perturbations and the increased efficiency of AGN feedback suggests that its inclusion results in a greater level of mixing in the ICM, demonstrated by the 10 per cent reduction in central metallicity for clusters with ATC. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1325382021-09-21T04:00:48Z Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction Barnes, David J Kannan, Rahul Vogelsberger, Mark Pfrommer, Christoph Puchwein, Ewald Weinberger, Rainer Springel, Volker Pakmor, Rüdiger Nelson, Dylan Marinacci, Federico Pillepich, Annalisa Torrey, Paul Hernquist, Lars © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society Understanding how baryonic processes shape the intracluster medium (ICM) is of critical importance to the next generation of galaxy cluster surveys. However, many models of structure formation neglect potentially important physical processes, like anisotropic thermal conduction (ATC). We explore the impact of ATC on the prevalence of cool-cores (CCs) via 12 pairs of magnetohydrodynamical galaxy cluster simulations, using the IllustrisTNG model with and without ATC. Examining their properties we find that the addition of ATC has a negligible impact on the median rotation measure, plasma β, the magnetic field-radial direction angle, and the effective Spitzer value. However, the scatter in the angle and effective Spitzer value is 50 per cent larger with ATC because the magnetic field aligns with the azimuthal direction to a greater extent in relaxed clusters. ATC’s impact varies from cluster to cluster and with CC criterion, but its inclusion produces a systematic shift to larger CC fractions at z = 0 for all CC criteria considered. Additionally, the inclusion of ATC flattens the CC fraction redshift evolution, helping to ease the tension with the observed evolution. With ATC, the energy required for the central black hole to self-regulate is reduced by 24 per cent and the gas fraction at 0.01 r500 increases by 100 per cent, producing larger CC fractions. ATC makes the ICM unstable to perturbations and the increased efficiency of AGN feedback suggests that its inclusion results in a greater level of mixing in the ICM, demonstrated by the 10 per cent reduction in central metallicity for clusters with ATC. 2021-09-20T18:22:55Z 2021-09-20T18:22:55Z 2020-11-16T17:34:20Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132538 en 10.1093/MNRAS/STZ1814 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press (OUP) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Barnes, David J Kannan, Rahul Vogelsberger, Mark Pfrommer, Christoph Puchwein, Ewald Weinberger, Rainer Springel, Volker Pakmor, Rüdiger Nelson, Dylan Marinacci, Federico Pillepich, Annalisa Torrey, Paul Hernquist, Lars Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title | Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title_full | Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title_short | Enhancing AGN efficiency and cool-core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| title_sort | enhancing agn efficiency and cool core formation with anisotropic thermal conduction |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132538 |
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