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A Simple Measurement of Turbulence in Cores of Galaxy Clusters

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Yutaka Fujita1

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Using a simple model, we study the effects of turbulence on the motion of bubbles produced by AGN jet activities in the core of a galaxy cluster. We focus on turbulence on scales larger than the size of the bubbles. We show that for a bubble pair with an age of ~108 yr, the projected angle between the two vectors from the cluster center to the two bubbles should be gtrsim90° and the ratio of their projected distances from the cluster center should be lesssim2.5, if the velocity and scale of the turbulence are ~250 km s-1 and ~20 kpc, respectively. The positions of the bubbles observed in the Perseus cluster suggest that the turbulent velocity is gtrsim100 km s-1 for the cluster.


Subject headings

cooling flows; galaxies: active; galaxies: clusters: general; turbulence


Dates

Issue 1 (2005 September 20)

Received 2005 July 4, accepted for publication 2005 August 8

Published 2005 September 7



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