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极端TeV耀变体和星系际磁场的下限

Extreme TeV Blazars and Lower Limits on Intergalactic Magnetic Fields

Timothy C. Arlen, Vladimir V. Vassiliev

摘要:

宇宙空洞中的星系际磁场(IGMF)可以通过其对TeV伽马射线源(如耀变体,活动星系核的一个子类)引发的电磁级联的影响来间接探测。在TeV能量下足够发光的耀变体,“极端TeV耀变体”,可以从级联中的电子的逆康普顿散射产生可检测水平的次级辐射,前提是IGMF不是太大。我们回顾了文献中最近的工作,利用这一想法推导出三颗TeV检测到的耀变体--1ES 0229+200、1 ES 1218+304和RGB J 0710 +591的IGMF约束,并且我们还研究了其他四颗硬谱TeV耀变体在同一框架中。利用最近开发的三维粒子跟踪蒙特卡罗模拟程序,结合量子电动力学和宇宙学膨胀的所有主要效应,研究了主要不确定性如源的光谱特性、紫外-远红外河外背景光(EBL)强度的不确定性、欠采样甚高能谱等的影响(VHE;能量> 100 GeV)覆盖范围,伽马射线发射的过去历史,源与观测者的几何形状,以及喷流AGN多普勒因子。最近报道的IGMF的下限,这些影响的影响进行了彻底检查,得出结论,目前可用的数据是兼容的零IGMF假设。

英文摘要:

The intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in cosmic voids can be indirectly probed through its effect on electromagnetic cascades initiated by a source of TeV gamma rays, such as blazars, a subclass of active galactic nuclei. Blazars that are sufficiently luminous at TeV energies, "extreme TeV blazars", can produce detectable levels of secondary radiation from inverse Compton scattering of the electrons in the cascade, provided that the IGMF is not too large. We reveiw recent work in the literature which utilizes this idea to derive constraints on the IGMF for three TeV-detected blazars-1ES 0229+200, 1ES 1218+304, and RGB J0710+591, and we also investigate four other hard-spectrum TeV blazars in the same framework. Through a recently developed detailed 3D particle tracking Monte Carlo simulation code, incorporating all major effects of QED and cosmological expansion, we research effects of major uncertainties such as the spectral properties of the source, uncertainty in the intensity of the UV - far IR extragalactic background light (EBL), under-sampled Very High Energy (VHE; energy > 100 GeV) coverage, past history of gamma-ray emission, source vs. observer geometry, and jet AGN Doppler factor. The implications of these effects on the recently reported lower limits of the IGMF are thoroughly examined to conclude that presently available data are compatible with a zero IGMF hypothesis.

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