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耀变体喷流的发射和能量

Emission and power of blazar jets

G. Ghisellini

摘要:

通过对耀变体光谱能量分布的建模,我们可以推断出产生我们所看到的通量所需的物理参数。然后我们就可以估计耀变体喷流以物质和场的形式所产生的能量。这些估计对于所有类型的耀变体都是相当稳健的,尽管它们部分依赖于所选择的模型(即轻子模型而不是强子模型)。这表明,在几乎所有的情况下,所携带的坡印廷通量并不占主导地位,而质子应该携带大部分的功率。在发射线耀变体中,喷流的能量与吸积盘的光度相当,而且往往更大。这对于无线路BL Lac更是如此。如果喷流的结构在亚pc尺度下,快速的脊柱被较慢的层包围,那么一个组件看到另一个组件的辐射增强,这种相互作用增强了两者的逆康普顿通量。由于层发射的光束较少,它也可以在大视角下看到,使射电星系非常有趣的GLAST候选者。这种结构不需要是稳定的成分,并且可以快速形成和消失。超快TeV的可变性正在挑战所有现有的模型,这表明至少部分喷流以大体积洛伦兹因子和极小的视角移动。然而,这些快速的“子弹”并不一定会挑战我们关于喷流的能量学和组成的主要观点。

英文摘要:

Through the modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of blazars we can infer the physical parameters required to originate the flux we see. Then we can estimate the power of blazar jets in the form of matter and fields. These estimates are rather robust for all classes of blazars, although they are in part dependent of the chosen model (i.e. leptonic rather than adronic). The indication is that, in almost all cases, the carried Poynting flux is not dominant, while protons should carry most of the power. In emission line blazars the jet has a comparable, and often larger, power than the luminosity of the accretion disk. This is even more true for line-less BL Lacs. If the jet is structured at the sub-pc scale, with a fast spine surrounded by a slower layer, then one component sees the radiation of the other boosted, and this interplay enhances the Inverse Compton flux of both. Since the layer emission is less beamed, it can be seen also at large viewing angles, making radio-galaxies very interesting GLAST candidates. Such structures need not be stable components, and can form and disappear rapidly. Ultrafast TeV variability is challenging all existing models, suggesting that at least parts of the jets are moving with large bulk Lorentz factors and at extremely small viewing angles. However, these fast "bullets" are not necessarily challenging our main ideas about the energetics and the composition of the bulk of the jet.

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