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具有弯曲电子谱的扩展射电星系叶的非热辐射

The non-thermal emission of extended radio galaxy lobes with curved electron spectra

Peter Duffy, Katherine M. Blundell

摘要:

现有的理论框架储存在射电星系和类星体的同步加速器发射叶中的能量并不能正确地解释它们中许多人所表现出的弯曲光谱形状。我们使用在高分辨率、低频射电天文学时代可以直接观察到的参数来测量这些光谱:光谱曲率和频谱的周转率。这个特性给出了能量分布中转换时的洛伦兹因子(我们指出,这明显不同于对应于翻转频率的洛伦兹因子,它取决于光谱中的曲率量)并且容易地给出均分磁场强度和辐射等离子体的总能量,这些重要的物理量。这个框架容易产生的形式的X射线发射由于逆康普顿(IC)散射宇宙微波背景(CMB)光子的等离子体中的电子具有$\sim$ 1000的洛伦兹因子。我们还提出了贡献CMB各向异性由于相对论等离子体,如巨大的射电星系叶,表示在何种程度上的叶有自己的磁场和粒子的能量是均分与彼此。

英文摘要:

The existing theoretical framework for the energies stored in the synchrotron-emitting lobes of radio galaxies and quasars doesn't properly account for the curved spectral shape that many of them exhibit. We characterise these spectra using parameters that are straightforwardly observable in the era of high-resolution, low-frequency radio astronomy: the spectral curvature and the turnover in the frequency spectrum. This characterisation gives the Lorentz factor at the turnover in the energy distribution (we point out that this is distinctly different from the Lorentz factor corresponding to the turnover frequency in a way that depends on the amount of curvature in the spectrum) and readily gives the equipartition magnetic field strength and the total energy of the radiating plasma obviating the need for any assumed values of the cutoff frequencies to calculate these important physical quantities. This framework readily yields the form of the X-ray emission due to inverse-Compton (IC) scattering of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons by the electrons in the plasma having Lorentz factors of $\sim$1000. We also present the contribution to CMB anisotropies due to relativistic plasmas such as giant radio galaxy lobes, expressed in terms of the extent to which the lobes have their magnetic field and particle energies are in equipartition with one another.

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