Cosmic-ray confinement in radio bubbles by micromirrors
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2024-04-09 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
Radio bubbles, ubiquitous features of the intracluster medium around active galactic nuclei, are known to rise buoyantly for multiple scale heights through the intracluster medium (ICM). It is an open question how the bubbles can retain their high-energy cosmic-ray content over such distances. We propose that the enhanced scattering of cosmic rays due to micromirrors generated in the ICM, as proposed recently by Reichherzer et al. (2023), is a viable mechanism for confining the cosmic rays within bubbles and can qualitatively reproduce their morphology. We discuss the observational implications of such a model of cosmic-ray confinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.05110,
title = {Cosmic-ray confinement in radio bubbles by micromirrors},
author = {Robert J. Ewart and Patrick Reichherzer and Archie F. A. Bott and Matthew W. Kunz and Alexander A. Schekochihin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05110},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures