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由强辐射相对论性磁重联供能的高能同步辐射耀发:二维和三维PIC模拟

High-energy synchrotron flares powered by strongly radiative relativistic magnetic reconnection: 2D and 3D PIC simulations

K. M. Schoeffler, T. Grismayer, D. Uzdensky, L. O. Silva

AI总结:

本文通过2D/3D辐射PIC模拟OSIRIS研究相对论性磁重联中的高能同步耀发,揭示磁岛压缩、辐射冷却及QED效应的作用。

摘要:

本文利用二维和三维(2D和3D)粒子网格(PIC)模拟,研究了在由强磁场重联供能的相对论性对等离子体中产生的高能同步辐射随时间的演化。在这项2D/3D比较研究中,模拟使用辐射PIC代码OSIRIS进行,该代码自洽地考虑了同步辐射对发射粒子的反作用,并使我们能够探索同步辐射冷却的效应。磁重联导致磁岛(等离子体团)深处的等离子体和磁场受到压缩,从而增强耀发辐射,这可能有助于解释一些天体物理伽马射线耀发观测。尽管辐射冷却削弱了来自等离子体团核心的辐射,但它促进了那里的额外压缩,进一步放大磁场$B$和等离子体密度$n$,从而部分缓解了这一效应。本文开发了利用$n\mbox{-}B$空间中二维直方图的新型模拟诊断方法,并将其用于可视化和量化压缩效应。观测到$n\mbox{-}B$直方图受到相对清晰的幂律边界限制,这些边界标示出明确的压缩极限。本文对其中一些压缩极限给出了理论解释,其根源在于辐射电阻率或三维扭曲不稳定性。针对引导磁场、系统尺寸和上游磁化强度开展了系统的参数空间研究,结果表明,在重联区尺寸更大、磁化强度更高的环境中,尤其当磁场强度接近磁星磁层中所发现的临界(Schwinger)场时,可能出现更强的压缩、更明亮的高能辐射,或许还会出现显著的量子电动力学(QED)效应,例如成对产生。

英文摘要:

The time evolution of high-energy synchrotron radiation generated in a relativistic pair plasma energized by reconnection of strong magnetic fields is investigated with two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The simulations in this 2D/3D comparison study are conducted with the radiative PIC code OSIRIS, which self-consistently accounts for the synchrotron radiation reaction on the emitting particles, and enables us to explore the effects of synchrotron cooling. Magnetic reconnection causes compression of the plasma and magnetic field deep inside magnetic islands (plasmoids), leading to an enhancement of the flaring emission, which may help explain some astrophysical gamma-ray flare observations. Although radiative cooling weakens the emission from plasmoid cores, it facilitates additional compression there, further amplifying the magnetic field $B$ and plasma density~$n$, and thus partially mitigating this effect. Novel simulation diagnostics utilizing 2D histograms in the $n\mbox{-}B$ space are developed and used to visualize and quantify the effects of compression. The $n\mbox{-}B$ histograms are observed to be bounded by relatively sharp power-law boundaries marking clear limits on compression. Theoretical explanations for some of these compression limits are developed, rooted in radiative resistivity or 3D kinking instabilities. Systematic parameter-space studies with respect to guide magnetic field, system size, and upstream magnetization are conducted and suggest that stronger compression, brighter high-energy radiation, and perhaps significant quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects such as pair production, may occur in environments with larger reconnection-region sizes and higher magnetization, particularly when magnetic field strengths approach the critical (Schwinger) field, as found in magnetar magnetospheres.

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