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宇宙射线与分子云的相互作用:银心内2度× 1度弥散高能辐射的韧致辐射起源

Interacting Cosmic Rays with Molecular Clouds: A Bremsstrahlung Origin of Diffuse High Energy Emission from the Inner 2deg by 1deg of the Galactic Center

F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. W. Hewitt, M. Wardle, V. Tatischeff, D. Roberts, W. Cotton, H. Uchiyama, M. Nobukawa, T. G. Tsuru, C. Heinke, M. Royster

摘要:

银河系中心内部几度的高能活动可以通过散射射电、X射线和伽马射线辐射来追踪。在多个波长下发射的扩散气体的不同组分之间的物理关系是这项工作的焦点。我们首先提出无线电连续观测使用绿岸望远镜和模型的非热谱的GeV电子发射同步辐射的打破幂律分布。我们发现,费米探测到的发射主要是由于非热韧致辐射产生的人口同步辐射电子在GeV的能量范围内与中性气体相互作用。从射电数据测量的电子布居数外推到低能量和高能量也可以解释FeI 6.4 keV线和弥散TeV发射的起源,如Suzaku,XMM-Newton,Chandra和H.E.S.S.天文台。在银河系中心内部300 × 120秒差距的韧致辐射背景下,通过模拟多波长辐射推断出的物理量被限制为宇宙射线电离率为1- 10 × 10 ^{-15} s^-1,分子气体加热率将气体温度提高到75- 200 K,分子气体的部分电离为10^{-6}至10^{-5},大尺度磁场为10-20微高斯,在300秒差距和50秒差距的路径长度上,扩散和致密分子气体的密度分别为100和10^3 cm^{-3},FeI Ka 6.4 keV谱线发射在年时间尺度上的变化。我们的研究的重要意义是,在无线电中发射的GeV电子可以解释费米探测到的GeV伽马射线,宇宙射线照射模型,如由过去的活动Sgr A* 引发的X射线照射的模型,也可以解释来自银河系中心分子云的变量6.4 keV发射的起源。

英文摘要:

The high energy activity in the inner few degrees of the Galactic center is traced by diffuse radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission. The physical relationship between different components of diffuse gas emitting at multiple wavelengths is a focus of this work. We first present radio continuum observations using Green Bank Telescope and model the nonthermal spectrum in terms of a broken power-law distribution of GeV electrons emitting synchrotron radiation. We show that the emission detected by Fermi is primarily due to nonthermal bremsstrahlung produced by the population of synchrotron emitting electrons in the GeV energy range interacting with neutral gas. The extrapolation of the electron population measured from radio data to low and high energies can also explain the origin of FeI 6.4 keV line and diffuse TeV emission, as observed with Suzaku, XMM-Newton, Chandra and the H.E.S.S. observatories. The inferred physical quantities from modeling multi-wavelength emission in the context of bremsstrahlung emission from the inner 300x120 parsecs of the Galactic center are constrained to have the cosmic ray ionization rate 1-10x10^{-15} s^-1, molecular gas heating rate elevating the gas temperature to 75-200K, fractional ionization of molecular gas 10^{-6} to 10^{-5}, large scale magnetic field 10-20 micro Gauss, the density of diffuse and dense molecular gas 100 and 10^3 cm^{-3} over 300pc and 50pc pathlengths, and the variability of FeI Kalpha 6.4 keV line emission on yearly time scales. Important implications of our study are that GeV electrons emitting in radio can explain the GeV gamma-rays detected by Fermi and that the cosmic ray irradiation model, like the model of the X-ray irradiation triggered by past activity of Sgr A*, can also explain the origin of the variable 6.4 keV emission from Galactic center molecular clouds.

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