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无线电背景的来源

Sources of the Radio Background Considered

J. Singal, L. Stawarz, A. Lawrence, V. Petrosian

摘要:

我们调查不同的方案的起源河外射电背景。ARCADE 2合作报告的背景表面亮度比目前观测到的射电源高出数倍。我们认为贡献的背景从集群和星系际介质,以前未被识别的流量从低表面亮度区域的射电源,和微弱的点源低于现有的调查流量限制的扩散同步辐射。通过研究文献中的射电源计数,我们得出结论,大多数的无线电背景是由无线电点源,占主导地位的亚microJy通量。我们表明,一个真正的扩散背景产生的电子远离星系被排除,因为这样的高能电子会过度产生obserevd X射线/γ射线背景通过逆康普顿散射的其他光子场。来自扩展射电源的低表面亮度区域的未识别通量,或完全被射电源计数调查遗漏的中等通量源,不能解释观测到的背景的大部分,但可能贡献高达10%。并表明,由于天体数量和总通量不足,两者都未能在观测水平上产生它,尽管射电宁静类星体的贡献至少为百分之几。我们的结论是,如果无线电背景是在报告的水平,大部分的总表面亮度将不得不由普通的恒星形成星系以上的红移1的特点是不断发展的无线电远红外相关,这朝着无线电大声与红移的变化。

英文摘要:

We investigate different scenarios for the origin of the extragalactic radio background. The surface brightness of the background, as reported by the ARCADE 2 collaboration, is several times higher than that which would result from currently observed radio sources. We consider contributions to the background from diffuse synchrotron emission from clusters and the intergalactic medium, previously unrecognized flux from low surface brightness regions of radio sources, and faint point sources below the flux limit of existing surveys. By examining radio source counts available in the literature, we conclude that most of the radio background is produced by radio point sources that dominate at sub microJy fluxes. We show that a truly diffuse background produced by electrons far from galaxes is ruled out because such energetic electrons would overproduce the obserevd X-ray/gamma-ray background through inverse Compton scattering of the other photon fields. Unrecognized flux from low surface brightness regions of extended radio sources, or moderate flux sources missed entirely by radio source count surveys, cannot explain the bulk of the observed background, but may contribute as much as 10 per cent. We consider both radio supernovae and radio quiet quasars as candidate sources for the background, and show that both fail to produce it at the observed level because of insufficient number of objects and total flux, although radio quiet quasars contribute at the level of at least a few percent. We conclude that if the radio background is at the level reported, a majority of the total surface brightness would have to be produced by ordinary starforming galaxies above redshift 1 characterized by an evolving radio far-infrared correlation, which changes toward the radio loud with redshift.

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