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原始HII区和超新星中磁场的放大

Amplification of Magnetic Fields in a Primordial HII Region and Supernova

Daegene Koh, John H. Wise

摘要:

磁场渗透在宇宙的各个尺度上,并在恒星形成过程中发挥关键作用。通过三个考虑辐射输运的宇宙学磁流体动力学模拟,研究了$z \sim 15$中一颗大质量无金属(第三星族)恒星在其HII区生长和随后的超新星爆发过程中周围磁场的演化.考虑到早期宇宙中磁场的理论不确定性和弱观测约束,我们用相同的初始条件初始化模拟,只改变种子场强度。我们发现,磁场增长为$ρ^{2/3}$在引力坍缩之前的恒星形成,从理想的球形坍缩模型。大质量的第III族恒星可以通过辐射反馈从宿主晕中排出大部分气体,我们发现在这个阶段,磁场不会被放大到球形坍缩标度关系之上。然而,之后当它的超新星遗迹可以辐射冷却和碎片,在壳内和周围的湍流速度场导致磁场显着放大平均$\sim$ 100在壳和高达6个数量级的反向冲击后面。在壳层内,场强在数密度为1 cm $^{-3}$时为几nG的量级。我们表明,这种增长主要是由小规模的发电机行动的残余。这些增强的磁场将传播到第一代星系中,可能影响其恒星形成的性质。

英文摘要:

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe on all scales and play a key role during star formation. We study the evolution of magnetic fields around a massive metal-free (Population III) star at $z \sim 15$ during the growth of its HII region and subsequent supernova explosion by conducting three cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations with radiation transport. Given the theoretical uncertainty and weak observational constraints of magnetic fields in the early universe, we initialize the simulations with identical initial conditions only varying the seed field strength. We find that magnetic fields grow as $ρ^{2/3}$ during the gravitational collapse preceding star formation, as expected from ideal spherical collapse models. Massive Population III stars can expel a majority of the gas from the host halo through radiative feedback, and we find that the magnetic fields are not amplified above the spherical collapse scaling relation during this phase. However, afterwards when its supernova remnant can radiatively cool and fragment, the turbulent velocity field in and around the shell causes the magnetic field to be significantly amplified on average by $\sim$100 in the shell and up to 6 orders of magnitude behind the reverse shock. Within the shell, field strengths are on the order of a few nG at a number density of 1 cm$^{-3}$. We show that this growth is primarily caused by small-scale dynamo action in the remnant. These strengthened fields will propagate into the first generations of galaxies, possibly affecting the nature of their star formation.

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