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Mrk 421喷流中的发射电子谱和加速过程:从低能到巨耀斑

Emitting electrons spectra and acceleration processes in the jet of Mrk 421: from low state to giant flare state

Dahai Yan, Li Zhang, Qiang Yuan, Zhonghui Fan, Houdun Zeng

摘要:

在单区同步辐射自康普顿(SSC)模型框架下,通过拟合不同激活态下的谱能量分布(SED),研究了Mrk 421喷流中的电子能量分布(EEDs)和加速过程.在假设两种可能的EED形成在不同的加速模型:冲击加速幂律指数截止(PLC)EED和随机湍流加速对数抛物线(LP)EED,我们拟合观测到的Mrk 421在低耀斑和巨耀斑状态的SEDs使用马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)方法,以更有效的方式约束模型参数.计算结果表明:(1)PLC模型和LP模型对低态的SED都有较好的拟合,但只有在PLC处于低态的情况下才能合理地解释模型参数从低态到耀斑的变化;(2)对于耀斑状态下的SED,LP模型比PLC模型具有更好的拟合性,在GeV-TeV波段观测到的日内/夜间变化只能用LP模型来处理。这一巨大耀斑的产生可能是由于低态激波加速电子的随机湍流再加速。因此,我们可以得出结论,在低状态下,冲击加速占主导地位,而在耀斑状态下,随机湍流加速占主导地位。此外,我们的结果表明,外推的TeV光谱从最佳拟合的SEDs从光学通过GeV与两个EED是不同的。当这种外推的TeV光谱用于约束河外背景光(EBL)模型时,应谨慎考虑。

英文摘要:

We investigate the electron energy distributions (EEDs) and the acceleration processes in the jet of Mrk 421 through fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in different active states in the frame of a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. After assuming two possible EEDs formed in different acceleration models: the shock accelerated power-law with exponential cut-off (PLC) EED and the stochastic turbulence accelerated log-parabolic (LP) EED, we fit the observed SEDs of Mrk 421 in both low and giant flare states by using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method which constrains the model parameters in a more efficient way. Our calculating results indicate that (1) the PLC and LP models give comparably good fits for the SED in low state, but the variations of model parameters from low state to flaring can be reasonably explained only in the case of the PLC in low state; and (2) the LP model gives better fits compared to the PLC model for the SED in flare state, and the intra-day/night variability observed at GeV-TeV bands can be accommodated only in the LP model. The giant flare may be attributed to the stochastic turbulence re-acceleration of the shock accelerated electrons in low state. Therefore, we may conclude that shock acceleration is dominant in low state, while stochastic turbulence acceleration is dominant in flare state. Moreover, our result shows that the extrapolated TeV spectra from the best-fit SEDs from optical through GeV with the two EEDs are different. It should be considered in caution when such extrapolated TeV spectra are used to constrain extragalactic background light (EBL) models.

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