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利用连续高时间分辨率光学偏振观测检验耀变体喷流中的粒子加速

Testing particle acceleration in blazar jets with continuous high-cadence optical polarization observations

Ioannis Liodakis, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Alan P. Marscher, Haocheng Zhang, Dmitry Blinov, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Iván Agudo, Erika Benítez, Andrei Berdyugin, Giacom… 展开作者

Ioannis Liodakis, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Alan P. Marscher, Haocheng Zhang, Dmitry Blinov, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Iván Agudo, Erika Benítez, Andrei Berdyugin, Giacomo Bonnoli, Carolina Casadio, Chien-Ting Chen, Wen-Ping Chen, Steven R. Ehlert, Juan Escudero, Tatiana S. Grishina, David Hiriart, Angela Hsu, Ryo Imazawa, Helen E. Jermak, Jincen Jose, Philip Kaaret, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Bhavana Lalchand, Elena G. Larionova, Elina Lindfors, José M. López, Callum McCall, Daria A. Morozova, Efthymios Palaiologou, Shivangi Pandey, Juri Poutanen, Suvendu Rakshit, Pablo Reig, Mahito Sasada, Sergey S. Savchenko, Elena Shablovinskaya, Sharma Neha, Manisha Shrestha, Iain A. Steele, Ivan S. Troitskiy, Yulia V. Troitskaya, Makoto Uemura, Andrey A. Vasilyev, Zachary Weaver, Klaas Wiersema, Martin C. Weisskopf

AI总结:

本研究利用全球16台望远镜实现了耀变体的连续高时间分辨率偏振观测,发现了亚小时级偏振变化和快速偏振角旋转,对比模拟发现现有模型无法完全解释观测到的偏振行为。

摘要:

光变是理解天体物理喷流中物理过程的重要途径,但检验粒子加速模型所需的高时间分辨率观测仍然缺失。本文报道了首次尝试利用分布在全球的望远镜并借助地球自转避开太阳升起,获取时长超过24小时的耀变体偏振光变曲线。本次观测活动涉及亚洲、欧洲和北美洲的16台望远镜,我们对BL Lacertae和CGRaBS J0211+1051进行了总计685望远镜小时的观测。我们发现两个源的偏振度和偏振角在亚小时时标上均存在大幅变化,且CGRaBS J0211+1051的偏振角在不到两天内发生了约180度的旋转。我们将高时间分辨率观测结果与粒子-in-元胞(Particle-In-Cell)磁重联及湍流等离子体模拟进行了对比,发现尽管当前最先进的模拟框架能够重现大部分偏振特性,但仍无法完全解释耀变体喷流中观测到的所有偏振行为。

英文摘要:

Variability can be the pathway to understanding the physical processes in astrophysical jets, however, the high-cadence observations required to test particle acceleration models are still missing. Here we report on the first attempt to produce continuous, >24 hour polarization light curves of blazars using telescopes distributed across the globe and the rotation of the Earth to avoid the rising Sun. Our campaign involved 16 telescopes in Asia, Europe, and North America. We observed BL Lacertae and CGRaBS J0211+1051 for a combined 685 telescope hours. We find large variations in the polarization degree and angle for both sources in sub-hour timescales as well as a ~180 degree rotation of the polarization angle in CGRaBS J0211+1051 in less than two days. We compared our high-cadence observations to Particle-In-Cell magnetic reconnection and turbulent plasma simulations. We find that although the state of the art simulation frameworks can produce a large fraction of the polarization properties, they do not account for the entirety of the observed polarization behavior in blazar jets.

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