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耀变体中的TeV可变性:它能有多快?

TeV variability in blazars: how fast can it be?

G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio, G. Bodo, A. Celotti

摘要:

最近切伦科夫对两个BL Lac天体PKS 2155-304和Mkn 501的观测显示,TeV通量的变化在3-5分钟内就达到了2倍。即使考虑到相对论性光束的影响,如此短的时间尺度也对简单和传统的发射模型提出了挑战,并要求替代的想法。我们探讨了极快速的可变发射可能产生的粒子流在超相对论速度沿磁场线和逆康普顿散射任何辐射场已经存在。这将产生非常准直的TeV光子束。虽然视线在这样一个狭窄的发射锥内的概率小得可以忽略不计,但人们可以预料,这个过程并不局限于一个单一的地点,而是可以发生在许多非常局部的区域,沿着几乎直的磁力线。实现这些条件的一个可能的天体物理设置是粒子束的磁离心加速。在这种情况下,可变性时间尺度将与发射体积的物理尺寸无关,但可以由负责产生这些高能粒子束的过程的典型持续时间或由磁场的相干长度来确定。据预测,更快的TeV变化-没有X射线对应物-应该被预见的更灵敏的切伦科夫望远镜观察到。

英文摘要:

Recent Cerenkov observations of the two BL Lac objects PKS 2155-304 and Mkn 501 revealed TeV flux variability by a factor ~2 in just 3-5 minutes. Even accounting for the effects of relativistic beaming, such short timescales are challenging simple and conventional emitting models, and call for alternative ideas. We explore the possibility that extremely fast variable emission might be produced by particles streaming at ultra-relativistic speeds along magnetic field lines and inverse Compton scattering any radiation field already present. This would produce extremely collimated beams of TeV photons. While the probability for the line of sight to be within such a narrow cone of emission would be negligibly small, one would expect that the process is not confined to a single site, but can take place in many very localised regions, along almost straight magnetic lines. A possible astrophysical setting realising these conditions is magneto-centrifugal acceleration of beams of particles. In this scenario, the variability timescale would not be related to the physical dimension of the emitting volume, but might be determined by either the typical duration of the process responsible for the production of these high energy particle beams or by the coherence length of the magnetic field. It is predicted that even faster TeV variability - with no X-ray counterpart - should be observed by the foreseen more sensitive Cerenkov telescopes.

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