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复合线辐射场中对级联的Gamma-ray特征

Gamma-ray signatures from pair cascades in recombination-line radiation fields

Christoph Wendel, Josefa Becerra González, Amit Shukla, David Paneque, Karl Mannheim

摘要:

blazar喷流中的超相对论电子束与周围的软光子相互作用形成对级联。采用带有逃逸项的耦合动力学方程,我们模拟了不饱和对级联光谱。我们假设伽马射线主要是从吸积盘和喷流的辐射光致电离的云中散射复合线光子。级联谱对与耀变体的短时变相关的硬电子谱的注入相当不敏感。采用Markarian 501和3C 279的物理参数代表,分别,我们数值计算得到的光谱能量分布显示出明显的特征印记的复合线光子。MAGIC望远镜在2014年7月的一次强X射线通量活动中探测到的Markarian 501光谱中~3 TeV处的一个特殊特征的暗示,可以在这种情况下解释为束电子对线光子的上散射和低的成对产生光学深度。从2018年1月开始检查3C 279的高保真费米-LAT光谱,发现光谱中的波谷与伽马射线与复合线光子碰撞产生对的阈值能量一致,并且没有指数衰减。我们的发现意味着3C 279中的γ射线从宽发射线区域的边缘逃逸。

英文摘要:

Beams of ultra-relativistic electrons in blazar jets develop pair cascades interacting with ambient soft photons. Employing coupled kinetic equations with escape terms, we model the unsaturated pair cascade spectrum. We assume that the gamma rays predominantly scatter off recombination-line photons from clouds photoionised by the irradiation from the accretion disk and the jet. The cascade spectrum is rather insensitive to the injection of hard electron spectra associated with the short-time variability of blazars. Adopting physical parameters representative of Markarian 501 and 3C 279, respectively, we numerically obtain spectral energy distributions showing distinct features imprinted by the recombination-line photons. The hints for a peculiar feature at ~3 TeV in the spectrum of Markarian 501, detected with the MAGIC telescopes during a strong X-ray flux activity in 2014 July, can be explained in this scenario as a result of the up-scattering of line photons by beam electrons and the low pair-creation optical depth. Inspecting a high-fidelity Fermi-LAT spectrum of 3C 279 from January 2018 reveals troughs in the spectrum that coincide with the threshold energies for gamma rays producing pairs in collisions with recombination-line photons, and the absence of exponential attenuation. Our finding implies that the gamma rays in 3C 279 escape from the edge of the broad emission line region.

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