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吸积磁白矮星高能流的数值模拟

Numerical simulations of high-energy flows in accreting magnetic white dwarfs

Lucile Van Box Som, Emeric Falize, Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Martine Mouchet, Clotilde Busschaert, Andrea Ciardi

摘要:

一些极星在其光学光变曲线中表现出准周期振荡,这被解释为冷却不稳定性驱动的激波振荡的结果。虽然数值模拟可以恢复这种物理现象,但它们错误地预测了X射线光度中的QPO,并且也未能重现观测到的频率,至少对于迄今为止探索的有限参数范围来说是如此。鉴于观测到的极坐标参数的不确定性,目前还不清楚模拟是否能重现观测结果。这项工作的目的是研究QPO,涵盖所有相关的极性显示QPO。我们进行了数值模拟,包括重力,回旋和韧致辐射损失,为广泛的极地参数,并比较我们的结果与天文数据使用合成的X射线和光学光度,我们表明,激波振荡是复杂的激波动力学的结果触发的相互作用的两个辐射不稳定性。二次激波形成于激波后区域的声视界,与我们从稳态解得到的估计一致。我们还表明,二次激波是必不可少的维持吸积激波振荡的平均高度预测我们的稳态吸积模型。最后,尽管探索的参数空间很大,但匹配观测到的QPO参数需要与观测到的参数不一致的参数组合。这种困难突出了一维模拟的局限性,这表明需要多维效应来理解极地吸积柱的非线性动力学和QPO的起源。

英文摘要:

Some polars show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in their optical light curves which have been interpreted as the result of shock oscillations driven by the cooling instability. Although numerical simulations can recover this physics, they wrongly predict QPOs in the X-ray luminosity and have also failed to reproduce the observed frequencies, at least for the limited range of parameters explored so far. Given the uncertainties on the observed polar parameters, it is still unclear whether simulations can reproduce the observations. The aim of this work is to study QPOs covering all relevant polars showing QPOs. We perform numerical simulations including gravity, cyclotron and bremsstrahlung radiative losses, for a wide range of polar parameters, and compare our results with the astronomical data using synthetic X-ray and optical luminosities.We show that shock oscillations are the result of complex shock dynamics triggered by the interplay of two radiative instabilities. The secondary shock forms at the acoustic horizon in the post-shock region in agreement with our estimates from steady-state solutions. We also demonstrate that the secondary shock is essential to sustain the accretion shock oscillations at the average height predicted by our steady-state accretion model. Finally, in spite of the large explored parameter space, matching the observed QPO parameters requires a combination of parameters inconsistent with the observed ones. This difficulty highlights the limits of one-dimensional simulations, suggesting that multi-dimensional effects are needed to understand the non-linear dynamics of accretion columns in polars and the origins of QPOs.

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