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连接同步加速器、宇宙射线和银河系平面中的磁场

Connecting Synchrotron, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields in the Plane of the Galaxy

T. R. Jaffe, A. J. Banday, J. P. Leahy, S. Leach, A. W. Strong

摘要:

我们扩展以前的工作建模银河系磁场在平面上使用同步辐射的总强度和偏振强度。在这项工作中,我们包括一个更现实的治疗宇宙射线电子使用GALPROP传播代码优化,以匹配现有的高能量数据。这一增加减少了我们以前分析中的简并,当与额外观察到的同步加速器频率相结合时,使我们能够以一种以前没有做过的方式研究宇宙射线电子光谱的低能端。对于纯扩散传播,我们发现低能注入谱比通常假设的要稍硬一些;对于J(E)\propto E^α,我们发现α = -1.34 \pm 0.12,这意味着在几个GeV以上的能量范围内,注入谱会出现非常尖锐的突变。这就预测了银河平面上的同步辐射亮度温度光谱指数β,在几GHz以下为-2.8 < β < -2.74,在23 GHz以下为-2.98 < β < -2.91。我们发现,包括宇宙射线再加速过程的模型似乎是不兼容的同步加速器数据。

英文摘要:

We extend previous work modeling the Galactic magnetic field in the plane using synchrotron emission in total and polarised intensity. In this work, we include a more realistic treatment of the cosmic-ray electrons using the GALPROP propagation code optimized to match the existing high-energy data. This addition reduces the degeneracies in our previous analysis and when combined with an additional observed synchrotron frequency allows us to study the low-energy end of the cosmic-ray electron spectrum in a way that has not previously been done. For a pure diffusion propagation, we find a low-energy injection spectrum slightly harder than generally assumed; for J(E) \propto E^α, we find α = -1.34 \pm 0.12, implying a very sharp break with the spectrum above a few GeV. This then predicts a synchrotron brightness temperature spectral index, β, on the Galactic plane that is -2.8 < β < -2.74 below a few GHz and -2.98 < β < -2.91 up to 23 GHz. We find that models including cosmic-ray re-acceleration processes appear to be incompatible with the synchrotron data.

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