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费米泡中的金属富集现象及其成因探讨

Metal Enrichment in the Fermi Bubbles as a Probe of Their Origin

Yoshiyuki Inoue, Shinya Nakashima, Masaya Tahara, Jun Kataoka, Tomonori Totani, Yutaka Fujita, Yoshiaki Sofue

摘要:

费米泡是我们银河系中巨大的伽马射线结构。泡沫的物理起源仍在争论中。主导方案可分为两类。一个是类似于河外星暴星系的核成星活动,另一个是过去的活动星系核(AGN)的银河系中心超大质量黑洞的类似活动。在本文中,我们建议,金属丰度测量将提供一个重要的线索,以探讨其起源。基于一个简单的球对称气泡模型,我们发现气泡气体的金属丰度和丰度模式强烈依赖于假设的恒星形成或活动星系核活动。由于超新星喷出物的存在,恒星形成情景比活动星系核情景预测更高的金属丰度和[O/Fe]和[Ne/Fe]丰度比。此外,所得到的丰度取决于伽马射线发射过程,因为由于非热粒子的加速和冷却时间尺度,不同的伽马射线发射过程需要不同的质量注入历史。未来的X射线任务,如ASTRO-H和Athena,将通过其高能量分辨率仪器的丰度测量,为探测气泡的起源提供线索。

英文摘要:

The Fermi bubbles are gigantic gamma-ray structures in our Galaxy. The physical origin of the bubbles is still under debate. The leading scenarios can be divided into two categories. One is the nuclear star forming activity similar to extragalactic starburst galaxies and the other is the past active galactic nucleus (AGN) like activity of the Galactic center supermassive black hole. In this paper, we propose that metal abundance measurements will provide an important clue to probe their origin. Based on a simple spherically symmetric bubble model, we find that the generated metallicity and abundance pattern of the bubbles' gas strongly depend on assumed star formation or AGN activities. Star formation scenarios predict higher metallicities and abundance ratios of [O/Fe] and [Ne/Fe] than AGN scenarios do because of supernovae ejecta. Furthermore, the resultant abundance depends on the gamma-ray emission process because different mass injection histories are required for the different gamma-ray emission processes due to the acceleration and cooling time scales of non-thermal particles. Future X-ray missions such as ASTRO-H and Athena will give a clue to probe the origin of the bubbles through abundance measurements with their high energy resolution instruments.

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