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银河系中心超大质量黑洞辐射的GRMHD模拟

Modeling Emission from the Supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Center with GRMHD Simulations

Kyle W. Martin, Siming Liu, Chris Fragile, Cong Yu, Chris L. Fryer

摘要:

人马座A* 是银河系中心的一个紧凑的射电源,由完全电离的等离子体吸积到一个超大质量黑洞中提供动力。然而,无线电辐射不能通过热同步过程中产生的引力约束流。对黑洞吸积过程的广义相对论磁流体动力学(GRMHD)模拟表明,沿吸积过程存在强烈的无界外流。利用GRMHD模拟给出的黑洞周围的流动结构,我们研究了这些流出物的热同步辐射是否可以解释观测到的射电辐射。我们发现,模拟产生相对较高的等离子体β值不能产生的无线电通量水平,而不超过钱德拉观测通过韧致辐射过程的X射线上限。预测的无线电频谱也比观察到的频谱都为一个温度的热模型和一个简单的非热模型与一个单一的幂律电子分布。电子温度需要低于黑洞附近的气体温度,才能重现观测到的无线电频谱。一个更完整的辐射过程的建模,包括广义相对论效应和偏振辐射的传输,将给出更多的物理过程中的Sgr A* 与当前的多波长,多历元,偏振观测这个源的定量约束。

英文摘要:

Sagittarius A* is a compact radio source at the Galactic center, powered by accretion of fully ionized plasmas into a supermassive black hole. However, the radio emission cannot be produced through the thermal synchrotron process by a gravitationally bounded flow. General relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical(GRMHD) simulations of black hole accretion show that there are strong unbounded outflows along the accretion. With the flow structure around the black hole given by GRMHD simulations, we investigate whether thermal synchrotron emission from these outflows may account for the observed radio emission. We find that simulations producing relatively high values of plasma beta cannot produce the radio flux level without exceeding the X-ray upper limit set by Chandra observations through the bremsstrahlung process. The predicted radio spectrum is also harder than the observed spectrum both for the one temperature thermal model and a simple nonthermal model with a single power-law electron distribution. The electron temperature needs to be lower than the gas temperature near the black hole to reproduce the observed radio spectrum. A more complete modeling of the radiation processes, including the general relativistic effects and transfer of polarized radiation, will give more quantitative constraints on physical processes in Sgr A* with the current multi-wavelength, multi-epoch, and polarimetric observations of this source.

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