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中子星吸积柱中磁不透明度的动力学效应

Dynamical Effects of Magnetic Opacity in Neutron Star Accretion Columns

Xin Sheng, Lizhong Zhang, Omer Blaes, Yan-Fei Jiang

AI总结:

通过辐射磁流体动力学模拟,研究了磁不透明度对中子星吸积柱结构动力学的影响,发现高磁场下柱变短、振荡减弱,并出现新的慢不稳定性,影响发射模式。

摘要:

我们展示了在笛卡尔几何中,对超临界中子星吸积柱进行的相对论性辐射磁流体动力学模拟,其中包括了依赖于温度的、极化平均的Rosseland平均不透明度,该不透明度考虑了磁场中的经典电子散射。正如我们之前的纯汤姆逊散射模拟一样,在所有模拟中均存在吸积激波的垂直振荡和水平传播的熵波(光子气泡)。然而,在高磁场(≳10^12 G)下,磁不透明度在柱的整体结构和动力学上产生了显著差异。在固定的吸积率下,增加磁场强度会导致吸积柱变短,尽管柱内的总体不透明度更大。此外,柱的垂直振荡幅度减小。在高磁场下增加吸积率会恢复柱的高度。然而,在这些场强下,由于处于不透明度随温度增加的区间,会出现一种新的、较慢的不稳定性。这种不稳定性导致柱的平均高度和振荡幅度在约10毫秒的时间尺度上显著增加。我们为这些结果提供了物理解释,并讨论了它们对这些柱观测特性的影响,包括由振荡引起的混合扇形束/铅笔束发射模式。

英文摘要:

We present relativistic, radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of supercritical neutron star accretion columns in Cartesian geometry, including temperature-dependent, polarization-averaged Rosseland mean opacities accounting for classical electron scattering in a magnetic field. Just as in our previous pure Thomson scattering simulations, vertical oscillations of the accretion shock and horizontally propagating entropy waves (photon bubbles) are present in all our simulations. However, at high magnetic fields $\gtrsim10^{12}$~G, the magnetic opacities produce significant differences in the overall structure and dynamics of the column. At fixed accretion rate, increasing the magnetic field strength results in a shorter accretion column, despite the fact that the overall opacity within the column is larger. Moreover, the vertical oscillation amplitude of the column is reduced. Increasing the accretion rate at high magnetic fields restores the height of the column. However, a new, slower instability takes place at these field strengths because they are in a regime where the opacity increases with temperature. This instability causes both the average height of the column and the oscillation amplitude to substantially increase on a time scale of $\sim10$~ms. We provide physical explanations for these results, and discuss their implications for the observed properties of these columns, including mixed fan-beam/pencil-beam emission patterns caused by the oscillations.

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