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相对论喷流中的光子增殖机制:天体物理意义

Photon breeding mechanism in relativistic jets: astrophysical implications

Juri Poutanen, Boris E. Stern

摘要:

相对论性喷流中的光子增殖涉及从喷流传播到外部环境并转换成电子-正电子对的高能光子的倍增。这些光子的能量密度的指数增长是由射流的体能量提供动力的超临界过程。射流外层的有效减速产生了具有快脊和慢鞘的结构化射流形态。在初始快速和高功率射流中,甚至脊柱也可以有效地减速,导致射流体能量转化为辐射的非常高的辐射效率。减速,结构射流的辐射角分布显着比一个简单的斑点模型与恒定的洛伦兹因子预测。这调和了TeV耀变体光谱拟合所确定的高多普勒因子与VLBI尺度下观测到的低视速度之间的差异,以及Fanaroff-Riley I射电星系和BL Lac天体观测统计和光度比所需的低喷流洛伦兹因子。光子育种产生的人口的高能量轻子的TeV耀变体的光谱拟合所需的电子注入功能的约束协议。在喷流外产生的相对论对通过逆康普顿过程发射γ射线可能解释射电星系中失调喷流相对高水平的TeV辐射。该机制再现了在耀变体中观察到的基本光谱特征,包括耀变体序列(随着光度的增加,光谱峰向低能量移动)。该机制非常稳健,可以在以高光子密度为特征的各种环境中运行。

英文摘要:

Photon breeding in relativistic jets involves multiplication of high-energy photons propagating from the jet to the external environment and back with the conversion into electron-positron pairs. The exponential growth of the energy density of these photons is a super-critical process powered by the bulk energy of the jet. The efficient deceleration of the jet outer layers creates a structured jet morphology with the fast spine and slow sheath. In initially fast and high-power jets even the spine can be decelerated efficiently leading to very high radiative efficiencies of conversion of the jet bulk energy into radiation. The decelerating, structured jets have angular distribution of radiation significantly broader than that predicted by a simple blob model with a constant Lorentz factor. This reconciles the discrepancy between the high Doppler factors determined by the fits to the spectra of TeV blazars and the low apparent velocities observed at VLBI scales as well as the low jet Lorentz factors required by the observed statistics and luminosity ratio of Fanaroff-Riley I radio galaxies and BL Lac objects. Photon breeding produces a population of high-energy leptons in agreement with the constraints on the electron injection function required by spectral fits of the TeV blazars. Relativistic pairs created outside the jet and emitting gamma-rays by inverse Compton process might explain the relatively high level of the TeV emission from the misaligned jet in the radio galaxies. The mechanism reproduces basic spectral features observed in blazars including the blazar sequence (shift of the spectral peaks towards lower energies with increasing luminosity). The mechanism is very robust and can operate in various environments characterised by the high photon density.

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