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用时变线偏振探测Blazar致密喷流的物理条件

Time-Variable Linear Polarization as a Probe of the Physical Conditions in the Compact Jets of Blazars

Alan P. Marscher

摘要:

对非热源的线性极化的一次测量提供了关于磁场的平均方向和有序程度的直接信息。对耀变体偏振的监测,结合毫米波VLBI成像的总强度和偏振强度,有可能确定磁场的几何形状。这是对相对论性喷流中的物理过程的关键探索,如有序场分量、湍流、磁重联、喷流的磁准直和加速、粒子加速以及产生极亮、高度可变的非热发射的辐射过程。对耀变体的多波段通量和射电-光学偏振的良好采样监测观测显示出多种多样的行为。在某些情况下,观察到的偏振模式似乎是系统的,而在其他随机性占主导地位。湍流涉及螺旋磁场、湍流,也许还涉及粒子加速,粒子加速取决于可能存在的磁场和激波阵面之间的角度。作者的TEMZ模型的模拟表明,湍流等离子体穿过射流中的直立锥形激波,湍流和环形磁场的混合物可以产生观察到的极化变化水平,即使当两个场分量大致相等时。

英文摘要:

A single measurement of linear polarization of a nonthermal source provides direct information about the mean direction and level of ordering of the magnetic field. Monitoring of the polarization in blazars, combined with millimeter-wave VLBI imaging in both total and polarized intensity, has the potential to determine the geometry of the magnetic field. This is a key probe of the physical processes in the relativistic jet, such as ordered field components, turbulence, magnetic reconnections, magnetic collimation and acceleration of the jet flow, particle acceleration, and radiative processes that produce extremely luminous, highly variable nonthermal emission. Well-sampled monitoring observations of multi-waveband flux and radio-optical polarization of blazars show a variety of behavior. In some cases, the observed polarization patterns appear systematic, while in others randomness dominates. Explanations involve helical magnetic fields, turbulence, and perhaps particle acceleration that depends on the angle between the magnetic field and shock fronts that might be present. Simulations from the author's TEMZ model, with turbulent plasma crossing a standing conical shock in the jet, show that a mixture of turbulent and toroidal magnetic field can produce the level of polarization variability that is observed, even when the two field components are roughly equal.

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