射电喷流中相对论电子束激发的不稳定性

本文作者用相对论电子束在等离子体中运动时的色散关系讨论了纵向传播的波模的稳定性，发现静电Ｌａｎｇｍｕｉｒ波和Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波是不稳定的，并计算了其增长率，而高频电磁模和硝声模是稳定的。相对论电子束激发的Ｌａｎｇｍｕｉｒ波和Ａｌｆｖｅｎ波的不稳定性可用于解释射电喷流中相间的热斑、粒子再加速、辐射机制以及能量传输问题。     

相对论电子的物理效应及其在高能天体中的应用

本文对相对论电子的辐射性质、能谱演化和加速机制等进行了简要的介绍。同时，对相对论电子在高能天体中的辐射作用和特性进行了简要的综述。本文给出了相对论电子在Blazar天体的射电辐射机制、光变机制、BL Lac天体的辐射机制以及γ暴的辐射机制等方面的应用研究成果。1、提出了相对论电子的光学薄同步辐射模型：解释Blazar天体的射电平谱：Blazar中心体的剧烈活动，使射电辐射区处于等离子体湍动状态，其中的相对论电子在湍动等离子体波的二交费米加速、激波加速、辐射损失、粒子逃逸和辐射区的绝热减速等物理过程作用下，形成较平的能谱，产生射电平谱。2、提出了新的Blazar天体光变模型：当Blazar天体爆发时，中心天体产生大量的相对论电子，注入喷流中；相对论电子产生同步辐射，并不断损失能量和逃逸辐射区，使它们的能谱快速变化，引起辐射发生快速光变。3、给出了BL Lac天体的等离子体反应堆模型：大量相对论电子从中心天体注入周围的等离子体反应堆中，通过同步辐射快速损失能量，同时这些电子同步吸收反应堆中不透明的光子，产生一个稳定、各向同性的幂律分布，其谱指数为γ＝3；然后，这些相对论电子通过等离子体反应堆的爆发或其表面扩散过程逃逸出来，辐射低频的同步辐射。模型解释了BL Lac天体的高频辐射表现出快速的谱变化性质，即流量减小时谱变陡。4、提出了相对论电子的内激波加速模型，解释γ暴的尖峰光变特性：在γ暴产生的相对论运动的壳层中，有内激波产生；激波在壳层中传播，耗散壳层的运动能，使其中的部分电子加速成为相对论电子。然后，这些电子通过同步辐射产生观测到的γ辐射。模型认为，γ暴中的每个尖峰辐射是一对内激波加速相对论电子的辐射过程，复杂的γ暴光变曲线是多对内激波辐射过程的叠加。     

Mrk421中TeV和X射线爆发的相关性

用同步自康普顿机制（ＳＳＣ）来解释１９９４年５月在ＢＬＬａｃ天体Ｍｒｋ４２１中观测到的ＴｅＶＸ射线爆发．认为此ＴｅｖＸ射线爆发是由一个高能成分产生的,它具有平坦的电子能量分布,其低能段上能谱指数αｅ≈０２５．这个爆发成分独立于另一个低能成分（或宁静成分）．此宁静成分具有较陡的电子能量分布,它产生宁静态的辐射能谱．大多数射电爆发表明电子能量分布有坦谱,能谱指数αｅ～０２－０４．与这个事实一起,上述结果意味着活动星系核中粒子加速的基本机制产生平坦的电子能量分布．     

日冕电子加速的诊断—多频射电高时间分辨率观测结果

一个太阳耀斑约含数千个微耀斑［１］，每个微耀斑以热的，低频波和加速粒子的形式释放能量。耀斑期间大部分能量的释放是通过电子加速转移的结果，然而电子加速是在耀斑前相开始，并在整个耀斑持续期间继续保持。在耀斑发展的不同相期间伴有各种各样的射电辐射现象（及其它波段共生现象），多波段射电观测和比较可以给出有关电子加速过程和耀斑自身发展的重要信息，尤其可检测加速开始的时间和频率部位（目前仍为太阳物理的前沿）。微耀斑能量的瞬时释放可能是引起不同类型快速精细结构的原因，射电毫秒级尖峰辐射是起因于连续能量释放的证据，其辐射源位于或靠近能量释放区［２］，公认射电辐射的快速结构是日冕电子束的特征信号［３，４］，所以今后使用高时间和高频率分辨率的宽带频谱仪同时观测可详细地探测加速过程，从而对预耀斑的加热和初始能量释放，耀斑的逐步建立和演化都具有重要意义。本文介绍几个典型事件，包括射电尖峰脉冲辐射，类尖峰辐射和短时标漂移结构     

日冕电子加速的诊断—多频射电高时间分辨率观测结果

一太阳耀斑的约含数千个微耀斑，每个微耀斑以热的，低频波和加速粒子的形成释放能量。耀斑期间大部分能量的释放是通过电子加速转移的 结果，然而电子加速是在耀斑前相开始，并在整个耀斑持续期间继续保持。本文介绍几个典型事件，包括射电尖峰脉冲辐射，类尖峰辐射和短时标漂移结构。     

平行激波加速离子的数值研究

伴随耀斑和日冕物质抛射共生的日冕和行星际快激波作为一种粒子加速机制一直是理论研究关注的热点课题.在准平行激波传播条件下,首先建立数值求解一维输运方程的方法,然后探讨加速离子分布与激波和背景等离子参数之间的关系.取扩散系数分别为常数和能量的函数、有限自由逃逸边界的计算结果表明:(1)随着加速时间的增大,高能粒子近似呈双幂律分布,低能端(3～10 MeV)谱指数逐渐从10.2减小到2.4,能谱逐渐变硬,粒子被激波加速后能量逐渐增大;(2)随着激波压缩比从2增大到4,相同时间同一能量范围的粒子能谱谱指数逐渐从3.2减小到2.2,能谱逐渐变硬,表明激波强度的增大使得加速效率增大;(3)上下游逃逸边界由5减小到2后,粒子能谱的谱指数由2.4增大到3.3,粒子的加速效率减小;(4)当粒子注入能量增大时,粒子能谱的谱指数由2.4减小到0.9,加速效率增大;(5)当扩散系数与能量成正比时,粒子能谱指数由2.2增大到4.3,能谱变软.     

Mrk421中TeV和X射线爆发的相关性

用同步－自康普顿机制（ＳＳＣ）来解释１９９４年５月在ＢＬｌａｃ天体Ｍｒｋ４２１中观测到的ＴｅＶ－Ｘ射线爆发,认为此Ｔｅｘ－Ｘ射线爆发是由一个高能成分产生的,它具有平坦的电子能量分布,其低能段上能谱指数αｅ≈０．２５,这个爆发成分独立另一个低能成分（或宁静成分）此宁静成分具有较陡的电子能量分布,它产生宁静态的辐射能谱。大多数射电爆发表明电子能量分布有坦谱,能谱指数αｅ≈０．２－０．４,与这个事实一起     

星系团PKS 0745-191中射电气体对X射线气体的加热

对星系团中相对论性粒子的能量演化做了数值计算，在此基础上，联合分析Chandra卫星数据和VLA射电观测结果，计算了星系团PKS0745-191中高能射电气体对X射线气体的加热作用，发现在射电气体幂律谱能量下限为0.001erg时，射电气体对X射线气体的加热不足以补充X射线气体的辐射能损．然后在计算研究了不同能量下限时射电气体对X射线气体的加热作用，并估计了射电气体的能量下限．     

太阳射电IV型爆发及伴随现象与白光耀斑的关系

通过1991年6月6日共生太阳白光耀斑（WLF）的射电运动IV型爆发及其伴随现象（包括耀斑后环、爆发衰减相的射电脉动、多波段射电辐射和太阳物质抛射等）观测资料的分析,定性地探讨了WLF的起源、加热机制和发射地点的问题．假设了WLF和射电运动IV型射电爆发可能有共同起源的低日冕电子加速区,讨论了WLF的能量传输可能是通过二步加速过程,即来自低日冕的非热电子沉降能量于色球层,产生色球层的压缩波或向下的辐射场进而使上光球层温度增加导致WLF此外,提出WLF可能会伴有耀斑后环和射电精细结构的对应物．     

Fermi耀变体的能谱分布研究

从SSDC (Italian Space Agency Science Data Center)搜集了68个Fermi耀变体的射电至X射线波段的观测数据,用对数抛物线拟合计算了其同步辐射峰的参数.研究了有效谱指数、同步辐射峰值频率和曲率的关系并用有效谱指数估算同步峰频.主要结果有:(1)研究同步峰频和曲率的线性关系发现,对于全部的蝎虎天体(BL Lac),结果与能量依赖加速概率模型的预测一致.但是,如果仅仅考虑高峰频BL Lac,即同步峰频lg (ν_p/Hz) 15.3的BL Lac,其结果却与分数变换加速增益模型的预测结果一致.(2)对于同步峰频相同的源,射电-光学的有效谱指数αro与曲率间有显著的负相关,而光学-X射线的有效谱指数α_(ox)与曲率无关.通过α_(ro)可以确定一个同步峰频与曲率的关系.     

A thermodynamic model of high temperature lava vaporization on Io

We modified the MAGMA chemical equilibrium code developed by Fegley and Cameron (1987, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 82, 207-222) and used it to model vaporization of high temperature silicate lavas on Io. The MAGMA code computes chemical equilibria in a melt, between melt and its equilibrium vapor, and in the gas phase. The good agreement of MAGMA code results with experimental data and with other computer codes is demonstrated. The temperature-dependent pressure and composition of vapor in equilibrium with lava is calculated from 1700 to 2400 K for 109 different silicate lavas in the ONaKFeSiMgCaAlTi system. Results for five lavas (tholeiitic basalt, alkali basalt, Barberton komatiite, dunite, and a molten type B1 Ca, Al-rich inclusion) are discussed in detail. The effects of continuous fractional vaporization on chemistry of these lavas and their equilibrium vapor are presented. The predicted abundances (relative to Na) of K, Fe, Si, Al, Ca, and Ti in the vapor equilibrated with lavas at 1900 K are lower than published upper limits for Io's atmosphere (which do not include Mg). We predict evaporative loss of alkalis, Fe, and Si during volcanic eruptions. Sodium is more volatile than K, and the Na/K ratio in the gas is decreased by fractional vaporization. This process can match Io's atmospheric Na/K ratio of 10±3 reported by Brown (2001, Icarus 151, 190-195). Silicon monoxide is an abundant species in the vapor above lavas. Spectroscopic searches are recommended for SiO at IR and mm wavelengths. Reactions of metallic vapors with S- and Cl-bearing volcanic gases may form other unusual gases including MgCl₂, MgS, MgCl, FeCl₂, FeS, FeCl, and SiS.     

Instructions for authors

正Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics publishes original research papers and reviews on all branches of astronomy and astrophysics.Reviews are by invitation only.Important new results that require rapid publication can be submitted as a Letter(Letters must be restricted in length to 6 printed pages).Authors who submit a paper are expected to be able to certify that the paper is original work,     

Alkali and halogen chemistry in volcanic gases on Io

We use chemical equilibrium calculations to model the speciation of alkalis and halogens in volcanic gases emitted on Io. The calculations cover wide temperature (500-2000 K) and pressure (10⁻⁶ to 10⁺¹ bars) ranges, which overlap the nominal conditions at Pele (T=1760 K, P=0.01 bars). About 230 compounds of 11 elements (O, S, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, F, Cl, Br, I) are considered. The elemental abundances for O, S, Na, K, and Cl are based upon observations. CI chondritic elemental abundances relative to sulfur are used for the other alkalis and halogens (as yet unobserved on Io). We predict the major alkali species in Pele-like volcanic gases and the percentage distribution of each alkali are LiCl (73%), LiF (27%); NaCl (81%), Na (16%), NaF (3%); KCl (91%), K (5%), KF (4%); RbCl (93%), Rb (4%), RbF (3%); CsCl (92%), CsF (6%), Cs (2%). Likewise the major halogen species and the percentage distribution of each halogen are NaF (88%), KF (10%), LiF (2%); NaCl (89%), KCl (11%); NaBr (89%), KBr (10%), Br (1%); NaI (61%), I (30%), KI (9%). We predict the major halogen condensates and their condensation temperatures at P=0.01 bar are NaF (1115 K), LiF (970 K); NaCl (1050 K), KCl (950 K); KBr (750 K), RbBr (730 K), CsBr (645 K); and solid I₂ (200 K). We also model disequilibrium chemistry of the alkalis and halogens in the volcanic plume. Based on this work and our prior modeling for Na, K, and Cl in a volcanic plume, we predict the major loss processes for the alkali halide gases are photolysis and/or condensation onto grains. Their estimated photochemical lifetimes range from a few minutes for alkali iodides to a few hours for alkali fluorides. Condensation is apparently the only loss process for elemental iodine. On the basis of elemental abundances and photochemical lifetimes, we recommend searching for gaseous KCl, NaF, LiF, LiCl, RbF, RbCl, CsF, and CsCl around volcanic vents during eruptions. Based on abundance considerations and observations of brown dwarfs we also recommend a search of Io's extended atmosphere and the Io plasma torus for neutral and ionized Li, Cs, Rb, and F.     

The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental indicators of past climatic conditions in the Levant and the deserts to its south and east. We first critically evaluate, extract, and summarize paleoenvironmental and paleohydrologic records. Then, we propose a framework of eastern Mediterranean atmospheric circulation features interacting with the morphology and location of the southeast Mediterranean coast. Together they strongly control the spatial distribution of rainfall and wind pattern. This cyclone–physiography interaction enforces the observed rainfall patterns by hampering rainfall generation south and southeast of the latitude of the north Sinai coast, currently at 31°15′.The proposed framework explains the much-increased rains in Lebanon and northern Israel and Jordan as deduced from pollen, rise and maintenance of Lake Lisan, and speleothem formation in areas currently arid and semiarid. The proposed framework also accounts for the southward and eastward transition into semiarid, arid, and hyperarid deserts as expressed in thick loess accumulation at the deserts' margins, dune migration from west to east in the Sinai and the western Negev, and the formation of hyperarid (< 80 mm yr^− 1) gypsic–salic soils in the southern Negev and Sinai. Our climatic synthesis explains the hyperarid condition in the southern Negev, located only 200–250 km south of the much-increased rains in the north, probably reflecting a steeper rainfall gradient than the present-day gradient from the wetter Levant into its bordering southern and eastern deserts.At present, the rainiest winter seasons in Lebanon and northern and central Israel are associated with more frequent (+ 20%), deeper Cyprus Lows traversing the eastern Mediterranean at approximately the latitude of southern Turkey. Even these wettest years in northern Israel do not yield above average annual rainfall amounts in the hyperarid southern Negev. This region is mainly influenced by the Active Red Sea Troughs that produce only localized rains. The eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows also produce more dust storms and transport higher amounts of suspended dust to the loess area than any other atmospheric pattern. Concurrent rainfall and dust are essential to the late Pleistocene formation of the elongated thick loess zone along the desert northern margin. Even with existing dust storms, the lack of rain and very sparse vegetation account for the absence of late Pleistocene loess sequences from the southern Negev and the formation of hyperarid soils.When the north Sinai coast shifted 30–70 km northwest due to last glacial global sea level lowering, the newly exposed coastal areas supplied the sand and dust to these active eastern Mediterranean cyclones. This enforced the latitude of the northern boundary of the loess zone to be directly due east of the LGM shoreline. This shift of coast to the northwest inhibited rainfall in the southern Levant deserts and maintained their hyperaridity. Concurrently, frequent deep eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows were funneled along the northern Mediterranean increasing (probably doubling) the rains in central and northern Israel, Lebanon, southwestern Syria and northern Jordan. These storms and rains formed lakes, forests, and speleothems only a short distance north of the deserts in the southern Levant.     

Active hot star shells

Interferometry in the visible provides milliarcsecond spatial resolution and thus has been used for studying the circumstellar environment of active hot stars. In this paper I will illustrate how the visibility modulus and phase can be used to better constrain the physics of Be disks through results from the VLA, the MkII and the GI2T interferometers. I will insist on the importance and the potential of coupling high angular resolution with high spectral resolution to the study of Be shells. Finally I will present a possible study of the circumstellar disk of Be stars using the VLTI. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Fitting X-ray Afterglow Light curves of Gamma-ray Bursts by Using the Magnetar Energy Injection Model

The central compact object for some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be a strongly magnetized millisecond pulsar. It can inject energy to the outer shock of the GRB by through the magnetic dipole radiation, and therefore causes the shallow decay of the early afterglow. Recently, from a large number of GRB X-ray afterglows observed by Swift/XRT(X-ray telescope), it is revealed that many of them exhibit the shallow decay about 10²∼10⁴ s after the burst prompt emission. We have fitted the X-ray afterglow light curves of 11 GRBs by using the energy injection model of a magnetar with the rotation period in the millisecond order of magnitude. The obtained result shows the validity and universality of the magnetar energy injection model in explaining the shallow decay of afterglows, and simultaneously provides some constraints on the magnetic field strength and rotation period of the central magnetar.     

Born–Infeld type phantom model in the ω–ω′ plane

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of Born–Infeld (B–I) phantom model in the ω–ω′ plane, which is defined by the equation of state parameter for the dark energy and its derivative with respect to N (the logarithm of the scale factor a). We find the scalar field equation of motion in ω–ω′ plane, and show mathematically the property of attractor solutions which correspond to ω _φ ∼−1, Ω _φ =1, which avoid the “Big rip” problem and meets the current observations well.      

Shear and vorticity in a combined Einstein-Cartan-Brans-Dicke inflationary lambda-Universe

A combined BCDE (Brans-Dicke and Einstein-Cartan) theory with lambda-term is developed through Raychaudhuri’s equation, for inflationary scenario. It involves a variable cosmological constant, which decreases with time, jointly with energy density, cosmic pressure, shear, vorticity, and Hubble’s parameter, while the scale factor, total spin and scalar field increase exponentially. The post-inflationary fluid resembles a perfect one, though total spin grows, but the angular speed does not (Astrophys. Space Sci. 312: 275, 2007d).