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耀变体中相对论喷流的辐射及其通过光子增殖的体能量的有效耗散

Radiation from relativistic jets in blazars and the efficient dissipation of their bulk energy via photon breeding

Boris E. Stern, Juri Poutanen

摘要:

高能光子在具有大速度梯度的磁化介质中传播可以介导能量和动量交换。这些光子在软光子场中转换成电子-正电子对,随后各向同性化并通过康普顿散射发射新的高能光子,可以导致由流的体能量馈送的高能光子和电子-正电子对的失控级联。这就是光子繁殖机制的本质。本文利用相对论喷流的二维弹道模型,详细讨论了粒子的传播和相互作用,研究了相对论喷流在blazar中通过光子增殖机制产生的高能辐射问题。在地球上观测到的类似能量密度的伽马射线背景足以引发光子繁殖。因此,喷气式飞机可以将其总功率的80%转化为辐射。光子繁殖产生了一个高能量对的人口,并预测光谱与blazar(例如blazar序列)的观测结果一致。它也减速的射流在subparsec尺度和诱导的横向梯度的洛伦兹因子,调和的差异之间的高多普勒因子从TeV blazars的光谱和VLBI尺度下观察到的低视速度。广泛的辐射角分布的机制预测调和观测到的统计数据和光度比FR I和BL Lac对象与大洛伦兹因子的喷流,以及解释了高水平的TeV发射的射电星系M87。(节略)

英文摘要:

High-energy photons propagating in the magnetised medium with large velocity gradients can mediate energy and momentum exchange. Conversion of these photons into electron-positron pairs in the field of soft photons with the consequent isotropization and emission of new high-energy photons by Compton scattering can lead to the runaway cascade of the high-energy photons and electron-positron pairs fed by the bulk energy of the flow. This is the essence of the photon breeding mechanism. We study the problem of high-energy emission of relativistic jets in blazars via photon breeding mechanism using 2D ballistic model for the jet with the detailed treatment of particle propagation and interactions. The gamma-ray background of similar energy density as observed at Earth is sufficient to trigger the photon breeding. As a result, a jet can convert up to 80 per cent of its total power into radiation. Photon breeding produces a population of high-energy pairs and predicts the spectra in agreement with observations of blazars (e.g. the blazar sequence). It also decelerates the jet at subparsec scales and induces the transversal gradient of the Lorentz factor which reconcile the discrepancy between the high Doppler factors determined from the spectra of TeV blazars and the low apparent velocities observed at VLBI scales. The broad angular distribution of radiation predicted by the mechanism reconciles the observed statistics and luminosity ratio of FR I and BL Lac objects with the large Lorentz factors of the jets as well as explains the high level of the TeV emission in the radio galaxy M87. (abridged)

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