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中子星并合过程中富镧系元素喷出物的星云辐射

Nebular Emission from Lanthanide-rich Ejecta of Neutron Star Merger

Kenta Hotokezaka, Masaomi Tanaka, Daiji Kato, Gediminas Gaigalas

摘要:

用单区模型研究了中子星合并(NSM)的富镧系元素喷出物的星云相,其中原子性质用单一物种钕(Nd)表示。在假定r过程核的β衰变为热源和电离源的条件下,求解了非定域热力学平衡下喷出物的电离和热平衡。用原子结构程序GRASP2K和HULLAC计算了原子的能级、辐射跃迁率、碰撞强度和复合速率系数。我们发现,这两个允许和禁止线大致同样有助于Nd II和Nd III在星云温度下的冷却速率。我们发现,在星云相的早期阶段,动力学温度和电离度随时间的增加,而这些量变得近似独立于时间后,热化打破加热率,因为有关的电离和热化平衡的过程是由于在以后的时间电子和离子之间的两体碰撞。因此,尽管亮度迅速下降,但在破裂后,出射光谱的形状并不随时间发生显著变化。结果表明,纯Nd喷出物的发射线星云谱由从$0.5\,μm$到$20\,μm$的宽结构组成,在$1\,μm$和$10\,μm$附近有两个明显的峰。

英文摘要:

The nebular phase of lanthanide-rich ejecta of a neutron star merger (NSM) is studied by using a one-zone model, in which the atomic properties are represented by a single species, neodymium (Nd). Under the assumption that beta-decay of r-process nuclei is the heat and ionization source, we solve the ionization and thermal balance of the ejecta under non-local thermodynamic equilibrium. The atomic data including energy levels, radiative transition rates, collision strengths, and recombination rate coefficients, are obtained by using atomic structure codes, GRASP2K and HULLAC. We find that both permitted and forbidden lines roughly equally contribute to the cooling rate of Nd II and Nd III at the nebular temperatures. We show that the kinetic temperature and ionization degree increase with time in the early stage of the nebular phase while these quantities become approximately independent of time after the thermalization break of the heating rate because the processes relevant to the ionization and thermalization balance are attributed to two-body collision between electrons and ions at later times. As a result, in spite of the rapid decline of the luminosity, the shape of the emergent spectrum does not change significantly with time after the break. We show that the emission-line nebular spectrum of the pure Nd ejecta consists of a broad structure from $0.5\,μm$ to $20\,μm$ with two distinct peaks around $1\,μm$ and $10\,μm$.

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