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相对论喷流的再准直和辐射聚焦:Blazar和M87的应用

Recollimation and Radiative Focusing of Relativistic Jets: Applications to Blazars and M87

Omer Bromberg, Amir Levinson

摘要:

最近对M87和一些耀变体的观测显示,在距离中心发动机相对较远的小区域内有剧烈的活动。出于这些考虑,我们研究了流体动力学准直的相对论冷却流出使用半解析模型开发较早。我们首先证明,辐射冷却的冲击流出层可以导致一个集中的流出和它的细化在一个区域具有非常小的横截面半径。这样的配置可以产生快速的可变性,在大的距离从中央发动机通过反射的会聚准直冲击。这个模型的TeV耀变体的可能应用进行了讨论。然后我们将模型应用于M87。M87喷流的低辐射效率使得聚焦不太可能。然而,从观测中推断的环境介质压力的浅剖面导致了非常好的准直,可以解释HST-1结发射的X射线通量的变化。

英文摘要:

Recent observations of M87 and some blazars reveal violent activity in small regions located at relatively large distances from the central engine. Motivated by these considerations, we study the hydrodynamic collimation of a relativistic cooling outflow using a semi-analytical model developed earlier. We first demonstrate that radiative cooling of the shocked outflow layer can lead to a focusing of the outflow and its reconfinement in a region having a very small cross-sectional radius. Such a configuration can produce rapid variability at large distances from the central engine via reflections of the converging recollimation shock. Possible applications of this model to TeV blazars are discussed. We then apply our model to M87. The low radiative efficiency of the M87 jet renders focusing unlikely. However, the shallow profile of the ambient medium pressure inferred from observations, results in extremely good collimation that can explain the reported variability of the X-ray flux emitted from the HST-1 knot.

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