MHD Simulations of Radio Galaxies Including Nonthermal Electron Transport
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We report on an effort to study the connections between dynamics in simulated radio galaxy plasma flows and the properties of nonthermal electron populations carried in those flows. To do this we have introduced a new numerical scheme for electron transport that allows a much more detailed look at this problem than has been possible before. Especially when the dynamics is fully three dimensional the flows are generally chaotic in the cocoon, and the jet itself can flail about violently. The bending jet can pinch itself off and redirect itself to enhance its penetration of the ambient medium. These behaviors often eliminate the presence of a strong jet termination shock, which is assumed present in all modern cartoon models of the RG phenomenon. Instead a much more complex “shock web” forms near the end of the jet that leads to a far less predictable pattern of particle acceleration. Similarly, the magnetic fields in these flows are highly filamented, as well as spatially and temporally intermittent. This leads to a very localized and complex pattern of synchrotron aging for relativistic electron populations, which makes it difficult to use properties of the electron spectrum to infer the local rate of aging.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000