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Fig. 7

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CR heating profiles due to CR streaming (upper black curves) and Coulomb losses (lower black curves) for the CR distributions resulting from different streaming velocities as indicated at curves, the turbulent heating profile (grey dashed line, calculated according to Enßlin et al. 2007), and the X-ray cooling profile (grey solid line). The adopted cool core parameters are n0 = 0.05cm-3, kT = 3   keV, rc = 10   kpc, υtu = 350   km   s-1, βϱ = 1, βcc = 0.4, Rcc = 10   rc, α = 2.5, and a CR to thermal energy ratio of εcr/εth = 0.15 at the outer radius of the cool core, Rcc, and less in the center (down to εcr/εth ≈ 0.01 for large αst). Since we assume the gas motions to be mostly convective, we set χtu = 10 to model an efficient radial transport. This implies αtu = 0.36 and κtu = 3.6 × 1030   cm2   s-1. We further have γtu = 2.4, 24, and 120 for αst = 0.5, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively. The total X-ray cooling luminosity of the cool core region is about 4.4 × 1043   erg   s-1. The heating power of the turbulence is about the same, but mostly going into outskirts of the cool core. The total CR heating power (streaming plus Coulomb) within the Rcc = 10   rc is 2.9, 2.4, and 0.8 × 1043   erg   s-1 for αst = 0.5, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively.

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