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Blazar gamma-ray辐射的光变研究

Study of the variability of Blazars gamma-ray emission

T. Sbarrato, L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio

摘要:

耀变体喷流的伽马射线发射显示出明显的可变性,这一特征限制了发射区域的大小和速度。我们使用费米伽马射线太空望远镜上的大面积望远镜活动的前18个月的数据研究明亮耀变体的伽马射线变化。从耀变体的日光变曲线中,我们首先确定了最小变率时间尺度,给出了源的发射区大小的上限,假设源是相对论运动的球状斑点。这些区域必须小于~10^-3秒差距。另一个有趣的时间尺度是爆发的持续时间。我们的结论是,它们不能对应于由一个单一的斑点沿射流相对论运动产生的辐射,但它们要么是从调制射流提取能量的立激波发射的签名,或者是在较短的时间尺度上发生的一些耀斑的叠加。我们还推导出较低的限制,需要大量的洛伦兹因子,使发射区透明的γ射线通过光子-光子碰撞相互作用。

英文摘要:

The gamma-ray emission of blazar jets shows a pronounced variability and this feature provides limits to the size and to the speed of the emitting region. We study the gamma-ray variability of bright blazars using data from the first 18 months of activity of the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. From the daily light-curves of the blazars characterized by a remarkable activity, we firstly determine the minimum variability time-scale, giving an upper limit for the size of the emitting region of the sources, assumed to be spheroidal blobs in relativistic motion. These regions must be smaller than ~10^-3 parsec. Another interesting time-scale is the duration of the outbursts. We conclude that they cannot correspond to radiation produced by a single blob moving relativistically along the jet, but they are either the signature of emission from a standing shock extracting energy from a modulated jet, or the superposition of a number of flares occurring on a shorter time-scale. We also derive lower limits on the bulk Lorentz factor needed to make the emitting region transparent for gamma-rays interacting through photon-photon collisions.

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