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旋转光学厚圆盘中的散射线偏振

Scattering line polarization in rotating, optically thick disks

Ivan Milic, Marianne Faurobert

摘要:

为了解释天体物理盘的观测,了解发射光的形成过程是至关重要的。如果圆盘是光学厚的,散射占主导地位,并通过开普勒速度场渗透,非局部热力学平衡辐射转移建模必须做从一个给定的圆盘模型计算出射光谱。我们研究了不同简单圆盘模型中非局域热力学平衡极化线的形成,旨在证明辐射转移效应和散射效应以及速度场效应的重要性。本文用雅可比迭代法自洽地求解了二能级原子模型的辐射转移和统计平衡耦合方程。我们计算了散射极化,即Q/I和U/I线轮廓。散射偏振的程度是显着影响的磁盘相对于观察者的倾斜度,但也由光盘的光学厚度和旋转的存在。斯托克斯U显示出双瓣的轮廓与振幅增加的磁盘旋转。我们的结果表明,线的轮廓,特别是极化的,从气体磁盘出现显着不同的简单近似预测的轮廓。剖面形状多样,但典型的是斯托克斯Q对称和斯托克斯U反对称。盘旋转的一个明确指标是斯托克斯U的存在,这可能被证明是一个有用的诊断工具。我们还表明,对于中等的旋转速度,可以使用的近似处理,其中非局部热力学平衡辐射转移是在速度场自由近似和多普勒频移的过程中应用的空间积分在整个发射表面。

英文摘要:

To interpret observations of astrophysical disks it is essential to understand the formation process of the emitted light. If the disk is optically thick, scattering dominated and permeated by a Keplerian velocity field, Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium radiative transfer modeling must be done to compute the emergent spectrum from a given disk model. We investigate Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium polarized line formation in different simple disk models and aim to demonstrate the importance of both radiative transfer effects and scattering as well as the effects of velocity fields. We self-consistently solve the coupled equations of radiative transfer and statistical equilibrium for a two level atom model by means of Jacobi iteration. We compute scattering polarization, that is Q/I and U/I line profiles. The degree of scattering polarization is significantly influenced by the inclination of the disk with respect to observer, but also by the optical thickness of the disk and the presence of rotation. Stokes U shows double-lobed profiles with amplitude which increases with the disk rotation. Our results suggest that the line profiles, especially the polarized ones, emerging from gaseous disks differ significantly from the profiles predicted by simple approximations. The profiles are diverse in shape, but typically symmetric in Stokes Q and antisymmetric in Stokes U. A clear indicator of disk rotation is the presence of Stokes U, which might prove to be a useful diagnostic tool. We also demonstrate that, for moderate rotational velocities, an approximate treatment can be used, where non-local thermodynamic equilibrium radiative transfer is done in the velocity field-free approximation and Doppler shift is applied in the process of spatial integration over the whole emitting surface.

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