ترغب بنشر مسار تعليمي؟ اضغط هنا

Discriminating different scenarios to account for the cosmic $e^pm$ excess by synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation

112   0   0.0 ( 0 )
 نشر من قبل Juan Zhang
 تاريخ النشر 2009
  مجال البحث فيزياء
والبحث باللغة English
 تأليف Juan Zhang




اسأل ChatGPT حول البحث

The excesses of the cosmic positron fraction recently measured by PAMELA and the electron spectra by ATIC, PPB-BETS, Fermi and H.E.S.S. indicate the existence of primary electron and positron sources. The possible explanations include dark matter annihilation, decay, and astrophysical origin, like pulsars. In this work we show that these three scenarios can all explain the experimental results of the cosmic $e^pm$ excess. However, it may be difficult to discriminate these different scenarios by the local measurements of electrons and positrons. We propose possible discriminations among these scenarios through the synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation of the primary electrons/positrons from the region close to the Galactic center. Taking typical configurations, we find the three scenarios predict quite different spectra and skymaps of the synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation, though there are relatively large uncertainties. The most prominent differences come from the energy band $10^4sim 10^9$ MHz for synchrotron emission and $gtrsim 10$ GeV for inverse Compton emission. It might be able to discriminate at least the annihilating dark matter scenario from the other two given the high precision synchrotron and diffuse $gamma$-ray skymaps in the future.

قيم البحث

اقرأ أيضاً

82 - Yuji Urata 2014
We present multi-wavelength observations of a typical long duration GRB 120326A at $z=1.798$, including rapid observations using a submillimeter array (SMA), and a comprehensive monitoring in X-ray and optical. The SMA observation provided the fastes t detection to date among seven submillimeter afterglows at 230 GHz. The prompt spectral analysis, using Swift and Suzaku yielded a spectral peak energy of $E^{rm src}_{rm peak}=107.8^{+15.3}_{-15.3}$ keV and equivalent isotropic energy of $E_{rm iso}$ as $3.18^{+0.40}_{-0.32}times 10^{52}$ erg. The temporal evolution and spectral properties in the optical were consistent with the standard forward shock synchrotron with jet collimation ($6^{circ}.69pm0^{circ}.16$). The forward shock modeling using a 2D relativistic hydrodynamic jet simulation also determined the reasonable burst explosion and the synchrotron radiation parameters for the optical afterglow. The X-ray light curve showed no apparent jet break and the temporal decay index relation between the X-ray and optical ($alpha{rm o}-alpha_{X}=-1.45pm0.10$) indicated different radiation processes in the X-ray and optical. Introducing synchrotron self-inverse Compton radiation from reverse shock is a possible solution, and the detection and the slow decay of the afterglow in submillimeter supports that this is a plausible idea. The observed temporal evolution and spectral properties as well as forward shock modeling parameters, enabled to determine reasonable functions to describe the afterglow properties. Because half of events share similar properties in the X-ray and optical to the current event, GRB120326A will be a benchmarks with further rapid follow-ups, using submillimeter instruments such as SMA and ALMA.
Via a Bayesian likelihood analysis using 219 recent cosmic ray spectral data points we extract the anomalous part of the cosmic $e^pm$ flux. First we show that a significant tension exists between the $e^pm$ related and the rest of the fluxes. Interp reting this tension as the presence of an anomalous component in the $e^pm$ related data, we then infer the values of selected cosmic ray propagation parameters excluding the anomalous data sample from the analysis. Based on these values we calculate background predictions with theoretical uncertainties for PAMELA and Fermi-LAT. We find a statistically significant deviation between the Fermi-LAT $e^-+e^+$ data and the predicted background even when (systematic) uncertainties are taken into account. Identifying this deviation as an anomalous $e^pm$ contribution, we make an attempt to distinguish between various sources that may be responsible for the anomalous $e^pm$ flux.
Electromagnetic observations have provided strong evidence for the existence of massive black holes in the center of galaxies, but their origin is still poorly known. Different scenarios for the formation and evolution of massive black holes lead to different predictions for their properties and merger rates. LISA observations of coalescing massive black hole binaries could be used to reverse engineer the problem and shed light on these mechanisms. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline based on hierarchical Bayesian inference to infer the mixing fraction between different theoretical models by comparing them to LISA observations of massive black hole mergers. By testing this pipeline against simulated LISA data, we show that it allows us to accurately infer the properties of the massive black hole population as long as our theoretical models provide a reliable description of the Universe. We also show that measurement errors, including both instrumental noise and weak lensing errors, have little impact on the inference.
First results are presented from kinetic numerical simulations of relativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection in pair plasma that include radiation reaction from both synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC) processes, motivated by non-thermal high- energy astrophysical sources, including in particular blazars. These simulations are initiated from a configuration known as ABC fields that evolves due to coalescence instability and generates thin current layers in its linear phase. Global radiative efficiencies, instability growth rates, time-dependent radiation spectra, lightcurves, variability statistics and the structure of current layers are investigated for a broad range of initial parameters. We find that the IC radiative signatures are generally similar to the synchrotron signatures. The luminosity ratio of IC to synchrotron spectral components, the Compton dominance, can be modified by more than one order of magnitude with respect to its nominal value. For very short cooling lengths, we find evidence for modification of the temperature profile across the current layers, no systematic compression of plasma density, and very consistent profiles of E.B. We decompose the profiles of E.B with the use of the Vlasov momentum equation, demonstrating a contribution from radiation reaction at the thickness scale consistent with the temperature profile.
179 - Delia Volpi 2007
We present a complete set of diagnostic tools aimed at reproducing synthetic non-thermal (synchrotron and/or Inverse Compton, IC) emissivity, integrated flux energy, polarization and spectral index simulated maps in comparison to observations. The ti me dependent relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations are solved with a shock capturing code together with the evolution of the maximum particles energy. Applications to Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) are shown.
التعليقات
جاري جلب التعليقات جاري جلب التعليقات
سجل دخول لتتمكن من متابعة معايير البحث التي قمت باختيارها
mircosoft-partner

هل ترغب بارسال اشعارات عن اخر التحديثات في شمرا-اكاديميا