星系团内物理过程对宇宙微波背景辐射的影响

观测表明,富星系团内存在着大量的高温热电子.它们将与微波背景光子相互作用.本文考虑了星系团集合使微波背景辐射产生的畸变.我们的理论估计表明,富星系团集合的高温热电子散射背景光子,使背景辐射谱偏离黑体辐射谱.在背景谱的维恩区,畸变小于2.74K黑体峰值强度的1％,这个结果与最近COBE卫星的探测结果是一致的.没有得到Matsumoto所探测到的在700μm附近有相当于黑体谱峰值强度10％的重大畸变.星系作为微引力透镜,对背景辐射的影响不可能探测得到.星系团内热电子的轫致辐射在微波波段更弱.     

星周尘埃壳层的消光值

本文首次提出了从观测得到的具有星周尘埃壳层的恒星的能谱分布求取星周尘埃云的消光,并由此可通过改正星周消光改正后的星际消光法求得恒星距离的方法。     

Synchro－Curvature Radiation──弯曲磁场中一种新的、更普遍的辐射

Ｓｙｎｃｈｒｏ－ＣｕｒｖａｔｕｒｅＲａｄｉａｔｉｏｎ──弯曲磁场中一种新的、更普遍的辐射张家铝（中国科技大学天体物理中心合肥２３００２６）郑广生（香港大学物理系）关键词同步辐射，曲率辐射，脉冲星磁层在脉冲星的辐射模型中，同步辐射和曲率辐射占有极其重要...     

Irradiation of dust in molecular clouds. I. UV doses

The radiation fluxes inside molecular clouds owing to a neighboring class A star or to isotropic interstellar irradiation are calculated. Radiation within the interval 912 ? < λ < 2067 ? is found to penetrate deeply enough to ensure a radiation dose for water ice on the order of 100 eV/amu or more over the lifetime of the clouds, whether a star formation region is present or not. The possibility is discussed of using these results for an astrophysical interpretation of published data from laboratory experiments on irradiation of ices of the type H₂O:CH₃OH:NH₃:CO. The resulting radiation-chemical transformation of complex organic materials may play an important role in the prebiological evolution of the dust component of molecular clouds. Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 311–324 (May 2009).     

1．35cm太阳射电缓变事件与可能的辐射机制

１９９３年５月３０日２２ＧＨｚ的缓变型射电事件的时间轮廓特征，以及在３ＧＨｚ、１０ＧＨｚ频率上没有对应射电事件的观测特征等，可用Ｍａｔｚｌｅｒ的热模型得到合理的解释。     

γ射线暴X射线耀发的研究进展

γ射线暴是宇宙中恒星尺度的最剧烈爆发现象。γ射线暴瞬时辐射结束后,进入余辉辐射阶段。X射线耀发是γ射线暴X射线辐射衰减过程中出现的短时标闪耀现象。X射线耀发的脉冲轮廓具有不对称性,其上升时标小于下降时标。在部分γ射线暴中,X射线耀发的亮度达到瞬时辐射的亮度。X射线耀发的持续时间与峰值时间具有线性关系。X射线耀发的光谱比X射线余辉的光谱硬。早期X射线耀发与晚期X射线耀发相比,其脉冲轮廓较窄,光谱较硬。X射线耀发产生的物理过程类似于γ射线暴瞬时辐射的物理过程。在火球(fireball)模型中,内部壳层之间发生碰撞,产生的内激波加速电子,电子的同步辐射产生X射线耀发。当火球扫过星际介质,外激波加速电子时,电子的同步辐射也可产生X射线耀发。在光球(photospere)模型中,能量耗散发生在光学厚的区域,热辐射的光谱峰值落在X射线能段附近,γ射线暴的喷流在光球半径处会产生X射线耀发。如果射线暴喷流由坡印亭能流主导,喷流就会与星际介质相互作用,磁场的不稳定性使磁场发生耗散,产生的能量形成X射线耀发。γ射线暴的喷流具有几何效应。一部分同步辐射可能发生在喷流辐射面的高纬度处。由于曲率效应(curvature effect),各向异性辐射与各向同性辐射相比,X射线耀发的峰值出现较晚。此外,在γ射线暴发生后,黑洞会间歇性地吸积外部介质。在吸积过程中,黑洞周围的磁场会调节吸积的速率和喷流中的能量,这是出现多个X射线耀发的原因。     

太阳射电三频率高时间分辨率三年同步观测的结果

本文总结了1987年2月到1989年12月三波段(1.42GHz、2.84GHz和4.0GHz)高时间分辨率同步观测的资料,介绍了各波段尖峰辐射出现的频次、持续时间以及与射电爆发、光学耀斑和X射线爆的统计关系.     

弯曲时空释放引力能的新机制

本文指出一种弯曲时空释放引力能的新机制,它不同于Penrose过程、Starobinsky-Unruh过程,也不同于Hawking蒸发过程。具体以Kerr和Schwarzschild度规为例,证实这种机制的存在,并给出获得净能量的公式(18),(20)。     

行星状星云NGC 2242的红外辐射

被Zwicky等人列为星系的NGC 2242,后来刘继英等人发现它具有发射特征并认为可能是行星状星云。前原英夫等人用有缝光谱肯定了它是一个行星状星云。我们证认它是IRAS06304+4448。根据IRAS Point Source Catalog所提供的25μm和60μm的辐射流量,我们得到了这一行星状星云的尘埃温度T_d=130K,光学厚度τ_(25μm)=1.98×10~(-7)和尘埃的总质量M_d=1.0×10~(-7)到1.8×10~(-6)M_⊙之间。     

回旋同步辐射自吸收的特性

详细研究了高能电子产生的回旋同步辐射自吸收的特性,并用磁偶极子场的 射电微波源模型计算了它的光学厚度.发现: (1)自吸率Kv随谐波数s的增加迅速地 下降,以致只有低次谐波(s<5)上的自吸收才会对微波爆发谱产生实质性的影响; (2) 自吸率κv随暗波数s下降的陡度还随高能电子的能谱指数δ的增加和其低能截止能量 E0的下降而迅速增加; (3)κv值还随传播角的增大而增加,并在70°至75°范围内达到 极值; (4)假设高能电子数密度为103cm-3,则在2≤s≤5范围内的自吸收的光学厚 度τvself在101-10-2之间变化,这些值约比回旋共振吸收的光学厚度τvgyro小3至4 个数量级.τvself在均匀磁场情况下可能被高估.只有当被加速的高能电子的数密度大于 104cm-3时,自吸收的光学厚度才开始能与回旋共振吸收的光学厚度相比较.     

切伦科夫线辐射的基本公式

在８０ 年代初,尤峻汉和程富华从理论上证实,当相对论电子在稠密气体中运动时,切伦科夫效应将产生宽的、轮廓明显不对称的原子或分子发射线．此后这一新的谱线发射机制被一系列实验所确证．尤峻汉等人又进一步给出了有关切伦科夫辐射的系列解析公式,但其有关谱轮廓和红移的结论只适用于极稠密的气体．由于这一线辐射机制在天体物理中的潜在重要性,在他们工作的基础上,进一步简化、推广、改进了原有的公式体系,并以天体物理学家熟悉的形式做出了更便于实际应用的表述     

Spatial and Spectral Behaviors of Solar Flares Observed in Microwaves

The spatial and spectral behaviors of two solar flares observed by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) on 24 August 2002 and 22 August 2005 are explored. They were observed with a single loop-top source and double footpoint sources at the beginning, then with looplike structures for the rest of the event. NoRH has high spatial and temporal resolution at the two frequencies of 17 and 34 GHz where a nonthermal radio source is often optically thin. Such capabilities give us an opportunity to study the spatial and spectral behaviors of different microwave sources. The 24 August 2002 flare displayed a soft – hard – soft (SHS) spectral pattern in the rising – peak – decay phases at 34 GHz, which was also observed for the spectral behavior of both loop-top and footpoint sources. In contrast, the 22 August 2005 flare showed a soft – hard – harder (SHH) spectral pattern for its both loop-top and footpoint sources. It is interesting that this event showed a harder spectrum in the early rising phase. We found a positive correlation between the spectral index and microwave flux in both the loop-top source and the footpoint sources in both events. The conclusions drawn from the flux index could apply to the electron index as well, because of their simple linear relationship under the assumption of nonthermal gyrosynchrotron mechanism. Such a property of spatial and spectral behaviors of microwave sources gives an observational constraint on the electron acceleration mechanism and electron propagation.     

High-Frequency Evolving Emission Lines for the 25 August 1999 Solar Flare

We analyze a special kind of temporal fine structure in microwave radio emission for the 25 August 1999 solar flare observed by the PMO spectrometer over the range of 4.5 – 7.5 GHz. This flare displays continuum emission after a group of reverse-slope type III bursts around 6 GHz. High-resolution dynamic spectra reveal three evolving emission lines (EELs) following the type III group. They are characterized by isolated, narrow, and continuous emission strips, which display frequency fluctuations with time. Their frequency-drift rates are between −2 and 3 GHz s⁻¹. Distinct from the EELs at lower frequencies, three EELs have a very short duration of a few seconds. They show an average bandwidth of Δf≈330 MHz and a relative bandwidth of Δf/f≈0.057. This is the first time that this kind of fine structure has been observed around 6 GHz.     

A high-resolution study of Jupiter at a frequency of 30 GHz

We present the results of our study of Jupiter and its radiation belts with a resolution of 6 arcsec at a frequency of 30 GHz using the RATAN-600 radio telescope and a MARS matrix radiometer with a sensitivity of about 6 mK ^?1/2. We monitored the integrated emission from the Jovian disk with a signal-to-noise ratio of more than 1000 for 30 days and showed its radio emission to be highly stable (≈1%). Based on daily data for the one-dimensional radio brightness distribution over the disk, we mapped the longitudinal radio brightness distribution over 100 rotation periods of Jupiter around its axis. Neither hot nor cold spots with a temperature contrast of more than 1 K were detected; their contribution to the total radio flux from the Jovian disk was no more than 0.2%. The one-dimensional latitudinal (longitude-averaged) distribution obtained on VLA with a similar resolution is shown to be an order of magnitude less uniform than the one-dimensional longitudinal (latitude-averaged) distribution obtained on RATAN-600. We have studied the radiation belts at such high frequencies for the first time and estimated their intensities and variability levels under the effect of external factors. The variable component of the radiation belts was shown to have not exceeded 0.5% of the integrated spectrum of Jupiter over the entire period of its observations. We estimated the contribution of the Galilean satellites (“Galilean noise”) in low-resolution observations; the accuracy of allowing for this noise is determined by the accuracy of estimating the temperatures of the satellites at the observing frequency. The uncertainty in the total flux does not exceed 0.1%.     

Frequency Distributions of Microwave Pulses for the 18 March 2003 Solar Flare

We analyze the pulses in high-frequency drift radio structures observed by the spectrometer at Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) over the frequency range of 4.5 – 7.5 GHz during the 18 March 2003 solar flare. A number of individual pulses are determined from the drifting radio structures after the detected gradual component subtraction. The frequency distributions of microwave pulse occurrence as functions of peak flux, duration, bandwidth, and time interval between two adjacent pulses exhibit a power-law behavior, i.e. . From regression fitting in log-log space, we obtain the power-law indexes, α _P=7.38±0.40 for the peak flux, α _D=5.39±0.86 for the duration, and α _B=6.35±0.56 for the bandwidth. We find that the frequency distribution for the time interval displays a broken power law. The break occurs at about 500 ms, and their indexes are α _W1=1.56±0.08 and α _W2=3.19±0.12, respectively. Our results are consistent with the previous findings of hard X-ray pulses, type III bursts, and decimetric millisecond spikes.     

Electron-positron and photon wind from the surface of a strange star

We consider the problem of strange-star (SS) radiation. The bare quark SS surface and electrons on the stellar surface generate an electric field that is strong enough for electron-positron pairs to be produced from a vacuum at a nonzero temperature. The luminosity in pairs is assumed to be within ?10⁴⁹ erg s^?1 from a surface with a characteristic radius of 10 km. We consider the energy transfer from pairs to photons by taking into account the well-studied reactions between e, e ⁺, γ and obtain a change in the photon spectrum with luminosity. Our analysis is restricted to the spherically symmetric case. The magnetic field is disregarded. To solve the problem, we developed a new numerical method of integrating the Boltzmann kinetic equations for pairs and photons. This method is used to calculate the problem up to a luminosity of 10⁴² erg s^?1 This region is difficult to investigate when the optical path for pairs or photons is considerably larger than unity but the two optical depths are not simultaneously much larger than unity (when hydrodynamics with heat conduction is applicable). It turns out that the mean photon energy is approximately equal to $\bar \in _\gamma \approx m_e c^2$ (the annihilation line for pairs) at a modest luminosity, L?1×10³⁷ erg s^?1, and decreases to ≈210 keV at L?10³⁸ erg s^?1. Hydrodynamic estimates point to an increase in the mean energy $\bar \in _\gamma$ to 1 MeV as the luminosity further increases to L?10⁴⁹ erg s^?1. Our calculations may prove to be useful in interpreting soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and are of methodological interest.     

日球边界射电辐射的研究进展

日球边界射电辐射是太阳系最强的射电辐射现象,辐射功率至少达1013 W,能够提供日球边界附近高能电子束和背景磁等离子体结构的重要物理信息.自1983年旅行者号卫星首次探测到日球边界射电辐射后,其便受到研究者们的广泛持续关注.日球边界射电辐射大致有两类:辐射频率相对较高的瞬时辐射或称漂移辐射以及辐射频率相对较低的持续辐射或称非漂移辐射.通常两类辐射都从大约2 kHz开始,漂移辐射具有向高频率漂移的特征,频漂率约为1–3 kHz/yr,频率范围1.8–3.6 kHz,持续时间较短大致100–300 d;非漂移辐射没有明显的频率漂移,频率范围1.8–2.6 kHz,持续时间较长大致3 yr.目前普遍认为日球边界射电辐射与激波有关.介绍了该射电辐射可能的辐射产生源区、辐射物理机制以及与辐射相关的激波来源,并且讨论了尚存在的科学问题以及展望了未来可以进一步开展的研究.