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相对论MHD模拟对蟹状星云粒子加速场的限制

Constraints on particle acceleration sites in the Crab Nebula from relativistic MHD simulations

Barbara Olmi, Luca Del Zanna, Elena Amato, Niccolò Bucciantini

摘要:

蟹状星云是银河系中最有效的加速器之一,也是唯一显示PeV粒子直接证据的星系源。尽管如此,这种有效加速背后的物理过程仍然是一个谜。虽然粒子加速,至少在最高的能量,通常被认为发生在脉冲星风终止冲击,上游流的属性被认为是不均匀的沿冲击表面,和重要的约束机制在工作中来自准确的知识,沿这个表面粒子被加速。在这里,我们使用轴对称相对论MHD模拟,以获得在蟹状星云的不同能量的粒子的加速网站(S)的约束。各种方案被认为是注入粒子负责同步辐射在不同的频带,无线电,光学和X射线。由此产生的发射特性进行比较与现有的数据的多波长的时间变化的内部星云。我们的主要结果是X射线发射粒子在脉冲星风的赤道区域被加速。加速机制的性质上可能的影响进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

The Crab Nebula is one of the most efficient accelerators in the Galaxy and the only galactic source showing direct evidence of PeV particles. In spite of this, the physical process behind such effective acceleration is still a deep mystery. While particle acceleration, at least at the highest energies, is commonly thought to occur at the pulsar wind termination shock, the properties of the upstream flow are thought to be non-uniform along the shock surface, and important constraints on the mechanism at work come from exact knowledge of where along this surface particles are being accelerated. Here we use axisymmetric relativistic MHD simulations to obtain constraints on the acceleration site(s) of particles of different energies in the Crab Nebula. Various scenarios are considered for the injection of particles responsible for synchrotron radiation in the different frequency bands, radio, optical and X-rays. The resulting emission properties are compared with available data on the multi wavelength time variability of the inner nebula. Our main result is that the X-ray emitting particles are accelerated in the equatorial region of the pulsar wind. Possible implications on the nature of the acceleration mechanism are discussed.

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