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关于SGR巨耀斑的触发机制

On the trigger mechanisms for SGR giant flares

Ramandeep Gill, Jeremy S. Heyl

摘要:

我们研究了两种触发机制,一个内部和外部的中子星,引起强烈的软伽玛射线中继器(SGR)的巨型耀斑。到目前为止,已经在1979年3月5日、1998年8月27日和2004年12月27日从七个确认的SGR中的三个观测到了三个巨大的耀斑。最后两个事件被发现比第一个更强大,并且都展示了一个前兆的存在,我们证明了它已经引发了主耀斑。在内部机制方面,我们认为极向磁场的强卷起产生切向不连续,并在加热地壳的过程中耗散了它的扭转能量。不稳定性发展的时间尺度与前体之后的静止状态的持续时间一致。或者,我们开发了一个重联模型的基础上的假设,剪切运动的足迹导致实现的斯威特帕克电流层的磁层。由于嵌入的超热湍流层的发展,这一宏观层变薄,从而开启了脉冲霍尔重联,这为巨大的耀斑提供了动力。再次,我们表明,变薄的时间是在耀斑前的静止时间的顺序。这个模型自然地解释了耀斑期间观测到的非热辐射的起源,以及耀斑后的射电余辉。

英文摘要:

We examine two trigger mechanisms, one internal and the other external to the neutron star, that give rise to the intense soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) giant flares. So far, three giant flares have been observed from the three out of the seven confirmed SGRs on March 5, 1979, August 27, 1998, and December 27, 2004. The last two events were found to be much more powerful than the first, and both showcased the existence of a precursor, that we show to have had initiated the main flare. In the internal mechanism, we propose that the strongly wound up poloidal magnetic field develops tangential discontinuities and dissipates its torsional energy in heating the crust. The timescale for the instability to develop coincides with the duration of the quiescent state that followed the precursor. Alternatively, we develop a reconnection model based on the hypothesis that shearing motion of the footpoints causes the materialization of a Sweet-Parker current layer in the magnetosphere. The thinning of this macroscopic layer due to the development of an embedded super-hot turbulent current layer switches on the impulsive Hall reconnection, which powers the giant flare. Again, we show that the thinning time is on the order of the preflare quiescent time. This model naturally explains the origin of the observed nonthermal radiation during the flares, as well as the post flare radio afterglows.

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