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宇宙MeV Gamma-ray背景和活动星系核的硬X射线谱:热AGN日冕起源的意义

The Cosmic MeV Gamma-ray Background and Hard X-ray Spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for the Origin of Hot AGN Coronae

Yoshiyuki Inoue, Tomonori Totani, Yoshihiro Ueda

摘要:

1-10 MeV的河外伽马射线背景辐射的来源仍然未知。虽然活动星系核(AGN)的能量总和可以解释高达几百keV的宇宙X射线背景(CXB),但现有的活动星系核谱模型由于假设电子能量分布为热指数截止,无法解释~1 MeV以上的背景谱。在这里,我们构建了一个新的光谱模型,通过计算康普顿化过程,包括非热电子,这是预期存在于活动星系核热日冕,如果它被加热的磁重联。我们发现,当日冕电子具有非热幂律分量,其总能量仅占热分量的几个百分比,谱指数为d(lnN_e)/d(lnE_e)~-4时,我们的模型可以很好地解释MeV背景谱。虽然在活动星系核附近的光谱中,来自这样一个组成部分的兆电子伏伽马射线通量低于过去观测的探测极限,但它可以被计划中的未来兆电子伏探测器探测到。我们指出,非热分量的数量和它的电子指数是相似的发现电子的磁重联加速在太阳耀斑和地球磁层,给重联假说的起源热AGN日冕的支持。

英文摘要:

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation at 1-10 MeV is still unknown. Although the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) up to a few hundreds keV can be accounted for by the sum of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), current models of AGN spectra cannot explain the background spectrum beyond ~1 MeV, because of the thermal exponential cutoff of electron energy distribution assumed in the models. Here we construct a new spectral model by calculating the Comptonization process including nonthermal electrons, which are expected to exist in an AGN hot corona if it is heated by magnetic reconnections. We show that the MeV background spectrum can nicely be explained by our model, when coronal electrons have a nonthermal power-law component whose total energy is a few percent of the thermal component and whose spectral index is d(ln N_e)/d(ln E_e) ~ -4. Although the MeV gamma-ray flux from such a component in nearby AGN spectra is below the detection limit of past observations, it could be detected by planned future MeV detectors. We point out that the amount of the nonthermal component and its electron index are similar to those found for electrons accelerated by magnetic reconnections in solar flares and the Earth magnetosphere, giving a support to the reconnection hypothesis for the origin of hot AGN coronae.

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