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Sgr A附近次级轻子的射电同步辐射

Radio Synchrotron Emission from Secondary Leptons in the Vicinity of Sgr A*

Roland M. Crocker, David Jones, David R. Ballantyne, Fulvio Melia

摘要:

最近,HESS和其他切伦科夫望远镜在银河系中心发现了一个~TeV伽马射线的点状源。在最近的工作中(Ballantyne et al. 2007),我们证明了这些伽马射线可以归因于高能质子,这些质子(i)在中心黑洞Sgr A* 的事件视界附近加速,(ii)扩散到~pc尺度,(iii)最终相互作用产生伽马射线。同样的强子碰撞过程必然导致电子和正电子的产生。在这里,我们计算的同步辐射率的次级轻子在相同的磁场配置,通过启动质子已在我们的模型中传播。我们比较这种发射与观察到的~GHz的无线电频谱的内部几个PC区域,我们已经组装从档案数据和新的测量,我们已经取得了与澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列。我们发现,我们的模型预测的二次同步辐射与陡峭的斜率与观察一致,但与整体归一化是太大的一个因素~ 2。如果我们进一步限制我们的理论伽马射线曲线,使其服从该区域发射的隐含EGRET上限,我们预测无线电发射与观测一致,即,伽马射线发射的强子模型可以同时且无需微调地解释从银河系内部几个pc探测到的所有漫射无线电发射。

英文摘要:

A point-like source of ~TeV gamma-rays has recently been seen towards the Galactic center by HESS and other air Cerenkov telescopes. In recent work (Ballantyne et al. 2007), we demonstrated that these gamma-rays can be attributed to high-energy protons that (i) are accelerated close to the event horizon of the central black hole, Sgr A*, (ii) diffuse out to ~pc scales, and (iii) finally interact to produce gamma-rays. The same hadronic collision processes will necessarily lead to the creation of electrons and positrons. Here we calculate the synchrotron emissivity of these secondary leptons in the same magnetic field configuration through which the initiating protons have been propagated in our model. We compare this emission with the observed ~GHz radio spectrum of the inner few pc region which we have assembled from archival data and new measurements we have made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We find that our model predicts secondary synchrotron emission with a steep slope consistent with the observations but with an overall normalization that is too large by a factor of ~ 2. If we further constrain our theoretical gamma-ray curve to obey the implicit EGRET upper limit on emission from this region we predict radio emission that is consistent with observations, i.e., the hadronic model of gamma ray emission can, simultaneously and without fine-tuning, also explain essentially all the diffuse radio emission detected from the inner few pc of the Galaxy.

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