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Near infrared coronal line emission at 1.98 ± 0.02Μm due to [Si VI] detected in the spectrum of Nova Herculis 1991 about 17
days after optical maximum is reported. The early appearance of coronal emission is yet another unusual feature of this fast
nova in which early onset of dust formation processes and X-ray detection five days after outburst have already been reported.
The coronal line observations reported here are consistent with X-ray detection and support a hot shocked circumstellar envelope
at the periphery of the dust formation zone in the nova. 相似文献
2.
P. Goldoni M. Ribó T. Di Salvo J. M. Paredes V. Bosch-Ramon M. Rupen 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,309(1-4):293-297
LS 5039 is the only X-ray binary persistently detected at TeV energies by the Cherenkov HESS telescope. It is moreover a γ-ray emitter in the GeV and possibly MeV energy ranges. To understand important aspects of jet physics, like the magnetic
field content or particle acceleration, and emission processes, such as synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC), a complete modeling
of the multiwavelength data is necessary. LS 5039 has been detected along almost all the electromagnetic spectrum thanks to
several radio, infrared, optical and soft X-ray detections. However, hard X-ray detections above 20 keV have been so far elusive
and/or doubtful, partly due to source confusion for the poor spatial resolution of hard X-ray instruments. We report here
on deep (∼300 ks) serendipitous INTEGRAL hard X-ray observations of LS 5039, coupled with simultaneous VLA radio observations. We obtain a 20–40 keV flux of 1.1±0.3 mCrab
(5.9 (±1.6) ×10−12 erg cm−2 s−1), a 40–100 keV upper limit of 1.5 mCrab (9.5×10−12 erg cm−2 s−1), and typical radio flux densities of ∼25 mJy at 5 GHz. These hard X-ray fluxes are significantly lower than previous estimates
obtained with BATSE in the same energy range but, in the lower interval, agree with extrapolation of previous RXTE measurements. The INTEGRAL observations also hint to a break in the spectral behavior at hard X-rays. A more sensitive characterization of the hard
X-ray spectrum of LS 5039 from 20 to 100 keV could therefore constrain key aspects of the jet physics, like the relativistic
particle spectrum and the magnetic field strength. Future multiwavelength observations would allow to establish whether such
hard X-ray synchrotron emission is produced by the same population of relativistic electrons as those presumably producing
TeV emission through IC. 相似文献
3.
In an effort to examine the relationship between flare flux and corresponding CME mass, we temporally and spatially correlate
all X-ray flares and CMEs in the LASCO and GOES archives from 1996 to 2006. We cross-reference 6733 CMEs having well-measured
masses against 12 050 X-ray flares having position information as determined from their optical counterparts. For a given
flare, we search in time for CMEs which occur 10 – 80 minutes afterward, and we further require the flare and CME to occur
within ± 45° in position angle on the solar disk. There are 826 CME/flare pairs which fit these criteria. Comparing the flare
fluxes with CME masses of these paired events, we find CME mass increases with flare flux, following an approximately log-linear,
broken relationship: in the limit of lower flare fluxes, log (CME mass)∝0.68×log (flare flux), and in the limit of higher
flare fluxes, log (CME mass)∝0.33×log (flare flux). We show that this broken power-law, and in particular the flatter slope
at higher flare fluxes, may be due to an observational bias against CMEs associated with the most energetic flares: halo CMEs.
Correcting for this bias yields a single power-law relationship of the form log (CME mass)∝0.70×log (flare flux). This function
describes the relationship between CME mass and flare flux over at least 3 dex in flare flux, from ≈ 10−7 – 10−4 W m−2. 相似文献
4.
K. S. Dwarakanath Siddharth Malu Ruta Kale 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2011,32(4):529-532
We have discovered a giant radio halo in the massive merging cluster MACSJ0417.5-1154. This cluster, at a redshift of 0.443,
is one of the most X-ray luminous galaxy cluster in the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS) with an X-ray luminosity in the 0.1–2.4
keV band of 2.9×1045 erg s − 1. Recent observations from GMRT at 230 and 610 MHz have revealed a radio halo of ∼ 1.2 × 0.3 Mpc2 in extent. This halo is elongated along the North-West, similar to the morphology of the X-ray emission from Chandra. The
1400 MHz radio luminosity (L
r) of the halo is ∼2 × 1025 W Hz − 1, in good agreement with the value expected from the L
x − L
r correlation for cluster halos. 相似文献
5.
Rajmal Jain Arun Kumar Awasthi Arvind Singh Rajpurohit Markus J. Aschwanden 《Solar physics》2011,270(1):137-149
We report solar flare plasma to be multi-thermal in nature based on the theoretical model and study of the energy-dependent
timing of thermal emission in ten M-class flares. We employ high-resolution X-ray spectra observed by the Si detector of the
“Solar X-ray Spectrometer” (SOXS). The SOXS onboard the Indian GSAT-2 spacecraft was launched by the GSLV-D2 rocket on 8 May
2003. Firstly we model the spectral evolution of the X-ray line and continuum emission flux F(ε) from the flare by integrating a series of isothermal plasma flux. We find that the multi-temperature integrated flux F(ε) is a power-law function of ε with a spectral index (γ)≈−4.65. Next, based on spectral-temporal evolution of the flares we find that the emission in the energy range E=4 – 15 keV is dominated by temperatures of T=12 – 50 MK, while the multi-thermal power-law DEM index (δ) varies in the range of −4.4 and −5.7. The temporal evolution of the X-ray flux F(ε,t) assuming a multi-temperature plasma governed by thermal conduction cooling reveals that the temperature-dependent cooling
time varies between 296 and 4640 s and the electron density (n
e) varies in the range of n
e=(1.77 – 29.3)×1010 cm−3. Employing temporal evolution technique in the current study as an alternative method for separating thermal from nonthermal
components in the energy spectra, we measure the break-energy point, ranging between 14 and 21±1.0 keV. 相似文献
6.
D. K. Nadyozhin 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1985,112(2):225-249
The initial stages of deceleration in the circumstellar medium of a stellar envelope, thrown off by a shock wave, are investigated. The equations of spherical-symmetric adiabatic hydrodynamics are shown to have a similarity solution in the case of the density of the expanding envelope being approximated by a reasonable power law. The overall flow pattern has such a form that the stellar material is decelerated in the internal shock wave while another shock propagates through the circumstellar matter. Between the shocks there is a contact discontinuity separating the circumstellar and stellar matter. The characteristics of the similarity solution are calculated for various exponents in the density laws of an expanding envelope and circumstellar matter and for two values of the adiabatic index (=5/3, 4/3). Some parts of the flow exhibit Rayleigh-Taylor instability.Special attention is paid to the validity of the hydrodynamics. In full agreement with D'yachenkoet al. (1969), we conclude that the kinetic and collisionless processes are of great importance if the initial stages of stellar envelope deceleration are to be properly monitored.The results obtained can also be employed to describe the interaction between the exploding core of a red giant star and its rarefied envelope. This is of interest for explosive nucleosynthesis.The similarity solution is applied to the envelopes expelled both by type-II supernovae and by rapid novae. In particular, the thermalization time-scale of circumstellar plasma is estimated. For SNii this time-scale proves to be of the order of 60 yr. This confirms with the observational data on the moment of the maximum radio-emission of young SNRs. In the case of rapid novae, this time is less by a factor of 10. Therefore, the peak radio and X-ray (2 keV) lumnosity may occur several years after the rapid nova outburst. The explosion of a degenerate carbon core is found to result in the heating of the hydrogen-helium envelope of a red giant star up to 3×106 K. 相似文献
7.
E. Sánchez-Ayaso J. A. Combi J. F. Albacete Colombo J. López-Santiago J. Martí A. J. Mu?oz-Arjonilla 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2012,337(2):573-579
We report XMM-Newton observations of the Galactic supernova remnant G296.8-0.3, together with complementary radio and infrared data. The spatial
and spectral properties of the X-ray emission, detected towards G296.8-0.3, was investigated in order to explore the possible
evolutionary scenarios and the physical connexion with its unusual morphology detected at radio frequencies. G296.8-0.3 displays
diffuse X-ray emission correlated with the peculiar radio morphology detected in the interior of the remnant and with the
shell-like radio structure observed to the northwest side of the object. The X-ray emission peaks in the soft/medium energy
range (0.5–3.0 keV). The X-ray spectral analysis confirms that the column density is high (N
H∼0.64×1022 cm−2) which supports a distant location (d>9 kpc) for the SNR. Its X-ray spectrum can be well represented by a thermal (PSHOCK) model, with kT∼0.86 keV, an ionization timescale of 6.1×1010 cm−3 s, and low abundance (∼0.12 Z
⊙). The 24 μm observations show shell-like emission correlated with part of the northwest and southeast boundaries of the SNR.
In addition a point-like X-ray source is also detected close to the geometrical center of the radio SNR. The object presents
some characteristics of the so-called compact central objects (CCO). Its X-ray spectrum is consistent with those found at
other CCOs and the value of N
H is consistent with that of G296.8-0.3, which suggests a physical connexion with the SNR. 相似文献
8.
We model the interaction of the supernova SN 1995G with a dense circumstellar (CS) gas in a thin-shell approximation. A model fit to the observed bolometric light curve combined with data on the supernova expansion velocity gives estimates for the density, mass (≈1 M⊙), and age (≈8 yr) of the CS envelope. The determined CS-envelope density is shown to be virtually independent of the assumed mass of the supernova envelope because of the high CS-gas density at which the forward shock wave is essentially radiative. The derived CS-envelope density is consistent with the Hα luminosity and with the presence of distinct Thomson scattering in the red wing of this line. The mass of the CS envelope together with its expansion velocity and age indicate that the CS envelope was ejected by the presupernova eight years before the supernova explosion through violent energy release (~6×1048 erg). 相似文献
9.
Optical spectroscopic data on the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi obtained between 32 and 108 days after its last outburst on 1985
January 27 are presented. RS Oph was in the coronal-line phase at that time. The widths of the permitted as well as coronal-lines
decreased continuously. Assuming that the ejected envelope decelerated due to its interaction with circum stellar matter,
its size is deduced as a function of time. Observed fluxes in permitted lines would then imply that the electron density decreased
from 3 × 109 cm#x2212;3 on day 32 to 1.8 × 108 cm-3 on day 108, for an assumed filling factor of 0.01. The helium abundance in the ejecta is estimated to be n(He)/n(H) ∼ 0.16.
The mass of the unshocked ejecta was 3 × 10-6 (Φ/0.01)1/2 M⊙, (at this stage, where f is the filling factor. Observed fluxes in coronal-lines imply that the temperature of coronal-line
region decreased from 1.5 × 106 K on day 32 to 1.1 × 106 K on day 108. Most of the coronal line emission, as well as He n emission arises in shocked and cooling ejecta. This region
is not isothermal, but contains material at a wide range of temperatures. Mass of the shocked ejecta is estimated to be in
the range 10−7−10−6 M⊙ Based on the number of H- and He-ionizing photons, we estimate that the ionizing source evolved from a radius and temperature
of (2 × l012 cm, 3 × 104 K) on day 32 to (6 × l09 cm, 3.6 × 105K) on day 204.
We also present the spectra of RS Oph recorded in quiescent phase, 2 and 3 years after outburst, for comparison. The spectrum
is dominated by that of M2 giant secondary, with superposed emission lines of H and He I 相似文献
10.
This paper describes a new 2D model for the photospheric evolution of the magnetic carpet. It is the first in a series of
papers working towards constructing a realistic 3D non-potential model for the interaction of small-scale solar magnetic fields.
In the model, the basic evolution of the magnetic elements is governed by a supergranular flow profile. In addition, magnetic
elements may evolve through the processes of emergence, cancellation, coalescence and fragmentation. Model parameters for
the emergence of bipoles are based upon the results of observational studies. Using this model, several simulations are considered,
where the range of flux with which bipoles may emerge is varied. In all cases the model quickly reaches a steady state where
the rates of emergence and cancellation balance. Analysis of the resulting magnetic field shows that we reproduce observed
quantities such as the flux distribution, mean field, cancellation rates, photospheric recycle time and a magnetic network.
As expected, the simulation matches observations more closely when a larger, and consequently more realistic, range of emerging
flux values is allowed (4×1016 – 1019 Mx). The model best reproduces the current observed properties of the magnetic carpet when we take the minimum absolute flux
for emerging bipoles to be 4×1016 Mx. In future, this 2D model will be used as an evolving photospheric boundary condition for 3D non-potential modeling. 相似文献
11.
Iradj Malakpur 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1977,47(1):49-59
Résumé Nos études nous ont amené à découvrir que toutes les novae sont entourées par une enveloppe de poussière. Cette enveloppe, qui a un rayon de 5×1014 à 5×1015 cm, existe avant l'explosion de la nova. Nous avons mesuré les valeurs, d'une part, de l'absorption visuelle de l'enveloppe poussièreuse circumstellaire de la Nova Delphini qui est de 1,12, 3,29 et 2,24 magnitudes pour les années 1968, 1969 et 1970, tandis qu'elle est de 3 m environ pour la Nova Serpentis 1970, durant le début de l'activité, et celles, d'autre part, du rapport de l'absorption visuelle à l'excès de couleurE
B-V de la Nova Delphini qui est environ de 2,35 2,75 et 3,36 respectivement pour les années 1968, 1969 et 1970. Nous voyons que l'effet du rougissement de l'enveloppe circumstellaire sur les flux des raies est très important; ainsi le flux observé de la raieH
doit être multiplié par un facteur de l'ordre de 30, pour éliminer l'effet de rougissement circumstellaire.En outre, nous avons trouvé que les particules constituant l'enveloppe circumstellaire ont un rayon de 0,1 micron, avant l'explosion, et que pour pouvoir interpréter les phénomènes observés, il faut considérer les particules de rayon 0,1 micron comme des noyaux de condensation pour former des particules de grandes dimensions. L'augmentation du rayon de ces particules, durant l'activité de la nova, est due à des collisions entre les particules de poussière (qui existent avant l'explosion), et la matière éjectée par la nova elle-même.
Our studies have led us to conclude that all Novae are surrounded by a dusty envelope. This envelope which has a radius of 5×1014 to 5×1015 cm, exists before the explosion of the Nova. We have measured visual absorptions of the circumstellar dusty envelope of Nova Delphini of the order of 1.12, 3.29, and 2.24 magnitudes in 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively, while that of Nova Serpentis was of the order of 3 magnitudes at the start of its activity. Also we have found the ratio of visual absorption to the colour excessE B-V for Nova Delphini, which was of the order of 2.35, 2.75, and 3.36 for 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively. Therefore, we see that the effect of the reddening of the circumstellar envelope on the line fluxes is very large; thus the flux ofH needs to be multiplied by a factor of order 30, to eliminate the effect of circumstellar reddening.We also found that the particles of the circumstellar envelope have a radius of 0.1 micron before the explosion and that, in order to interpret the observed phenomena, one must consider the 0.1 micron radius particles as condensation nuclei, for the formation of large particles. The increase in particle radius during the activity of a Nova is due to collisions between dust particles (which exist before the explosion) and gas ejected by the Nova.相似文献
12.
Photometric and spectroscopic characteristics of the WN5+O6 binary system, V444 Cyg, were studied. The Wilson‐Devinney (WD) analysis, using new BV observations carried out at the Ankara University Observatory, revealed the masses, radii, and temperatures of the components of the system as MWR = 10.64 M⊙, MO = 24.68 M⊙, RWR = 7.19 R⊙, RO = 6.85 R⊙, TWR = 31 000 K, and TO = 40000 K, respectively. It was found that both components had a full spherical geometry, whereas the circumstellar envelope of the WR component had an asymmetric structure. The O – C analysis of the system revealed a period lengthening of 0.139 ± 0.018 syr–1, implying a mass loss rate of (6.76 ± 0.39) ×10–6 M⊙ yr–1 for the WR component. Moreover, 106 IUE‐NEWSIPS spectra were obtained from NASA's IUE archive for line identification and determination of line profile variability with phase, wind velocities and variability in continuum fluxes. The integrated continuum flux level (between 1200–2000 Å) showed a mild and regular increase from orbital phase 0.00 up to 0.50 and then a decrease in the same way back to phase 0.00. This is evaluated as the O component making a constant and regular contribution to the system's UV light as the dominant source. The C IV line, originating in the circumstellar envelope, had the highest velocity while N IV line, originating in deeper layers of the envelope, had the lowest velocity. The average radial velocity calculated by using the C IV line (wind velocity) was found as 2326 km s–1 (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
13.
M. Kato 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2010,331(2):140-145
I review various phenomena associated with mass‐accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in the view of supersoft X‐ray sources. When the mass‐accretion rate is low (Ṁacc < a few × 10–7 M⊙yr–1), hydrogen nuclear burning is unstable and nova outbursts occur. A nova is a transient supersoft X‐ray source (SSS) in its later phase which timescale depends strongly on the WD mass. The X‐ray turn on/off time is a good indicator of the WD mass. At an intermediate mass‐accretion rate an accreting WD becomes a persistent SSS with steady hydrogen burning. For a higher mass‐accretion rate, the WD undergoes “accretion wind evolution” in which the WD accretes matter from the equatorial plane and loses mass by optically thick winds from the other directions. Two SSS, namely RX J0513‐6951 and V Sge, are corresponding objects to this accretion wind evolution. We can specify mass increasing WDs from light‐curve analysis based on the optically thick wind theory using multiwavelength observational data including optical, IR, and supersoft X‐rays. Mass estimates of individual objects give important information for the binary evolution scenario of type Ia supernovae (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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We propose a model for the bolometric light curve of a type-Ia supernova (SN Ia) that explodes in a dense circumstellar (CS) envelope. Our modeling of the light curves for SN 2002ic and SN 1997cy shows that the densities of the CS envelopes around both supernovae at a radius of ~7×1015 cm are similar, while the characteristic ejection time for this envelope around SN 1997cy does not exceed 600 yr. We analyze two possible evolutionary scenarios that could lead to the explosion of a SN Ia inside a dense C S hydrogen envelope: accretion onto a CO white dwarf in a symbiotic binary and the evolution of a single star with an initial mass of about 8M⊙. If the hypothesis of a SN Ia explosion in a dense CS envelope is correct for SN 2002ic and SN 1997cy, then we must assume that the the rapid loss of the red-supergiant envelope in several hundred years and the subsequent explosion of the CO white dwarf are synchronized by some physical mechanism. This mechanism may be related to the contraction of the white dwarf as it approaches the Chandrasekhar limit. We show that the formation of a (super-)Chandrasekhar mass due to the merger of a CO white dwarf and the CO core of a red supergiant followed by a supernovae explosion is unlikely, since this mechanism does not provide the required synchronization of the rapid mass loss and the explosion. 相似文献
15.
V. M. Chechetkin S. S. Gershtein V. S. Imshennik L. N. Ivanova M. Yu. Khlopov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1980,67(1):61-97
The present work studies the hydrodynamic process of thermonuclear explosion of hydrostatic equilibrium, degenerate carbon-oxygen
cores withM
C=1.40M
⊙ with different values of central densityϱ
c
within the interval 2 × 109 <ϱ
c
< 3 × 1010 g cm−3. The initial temperature distribution has been determined by the preceding thermal stage of explosion. The calculations successively
include the kinetics of thermonuclear burning, the kinetics of β-processes, and neutrino energy losses. By considering the
neutrino mechanism of heating and carbon ignition we obtained in our numerical hydrodynamic calculations two characteristic
versions of the development of an explosion: (a) at 2 × 109 <ϱ
c
< 9 × 109 g cm−3 there is disruption of the whole star with either complete or partial burning of the carbon and a 1050–1051 erg kinetic energy; and (b) at 9 × 109 <ϱ
c
< 3 × 1010 g cm−3 the stellar core collapses into a neutron star with partial outburst of the outer envelope with a smaller kinetic energy
of 1049–1050 erg. The paper proposes and details a hypothesis (the scenario of supernovae and the formation of neutron stars) on the first
version of explosion, corresponding to SNII, and on the second, supplemented by some mechanism of slow energy release into
the envelope expelled from the newly formed neutron star, corresponding to SNI. On the basis of the proposed hypothesis a
satisfactory agreement with the observed masses and energies of the supernovae envelope, their light curves and spectra, as
well as with the data on their chemical composition has been obtained. For this agreement we must assume that type I pre-supernovae
are almost bare compact carbon-oxygen stellar cores, and that type II presupernovae are red supergiants. It is most probable
that the evolution of type I pre-supernovae occurs in close binaries while the evolution of type II pre-supernovae seems to
be very similar to the evolution of a single star. 相似文献
16.
G.M. Rudnitskij 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1997,251(1-2):263-266
The database of observations of H2O maser variability in a sample of late-type variable stars (oxygen-rich Miras and semiregulars) is analyzed. Some regularities
of the H2O variability are traced: in most of the stars studied, the H2O flux peaks soon after visual light maxima with a phase delay Δϕ ranging between 0.1 and 0.3 P. The models considered involve the effects of pulsation-induced shock waves: direct impact
of a shock on the masering layer in the circumstellar envelope or amplification of the radio continuum, produced by the postshock
ionized gas near light maxima, by pumped H2O molecules.
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
17.
Michael Nowak 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,300(1-3):159-166
Previous work by Motch et al. [1985, Space Sci. Rev. 40, 219] suggested that in the low/hard state of GX, the soft X-ray power-law extrapolated backward in energy agrees with the
IR flux level. Corbel and Fender [2002, ApJ 573, L35–L39] later showed that the typical hard state radio power-law extrapolated forward in energy meets the backward extrapolated
X-ray power-law at an IR spectral break, which was explicitly observed twice in GX. This has been cited as further evidence
that jet synchrotron radiation might make a significant contribution to the observed X-rays in the hard state. We explore
this hypothesis with a series of simultaneous radio/X-ray hard state observations of GX. We fit these spectra with a simple,
but remarkably successful, doubly broken power-law model that indeed requires a spectral break in the IR. For most of these
observations, the break position as a function of X-ray flux agrees with the jet model predictions. We then examine the radio
flux/X-ray flux correlation in CYG through the use of 15 GHz radio data, obtained with the Ryle radio telescope, and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data, from the All Sky Monitor and pointed observations. We find evidence of ‘parallel tracks’ in the radio/X-ray correlation which are associated with
‘failed transitions’ to, or the beginning of a transition to, the soft state. We also find that for CYG the radio flux is
more fundamentally correlated with the hard, rather than the soft, X-ray flux. 相似文献
18.
N. N. Chugai 《Astronomy Letters》2016,42(2):82-89
The possibility of explaining the light curve and the low expansion velocity of SN 2011ht, which belongs to a group of three objects showing signatures of both type IIn and type IIP supernovae, is explored. The radiated energy and expansion velocity of the ejecta of SN 2011ht are shown to be consistent with a low-energy supernova explosion (≈6 × 1049 erg) and ≤2 \({M_ \odot }\) ejecta expanding within a circumstellar envelope of radius ~2 × 1014 cm and mass 6?8 \({M_ \odot }\) An observational test for this scenario is proposed. 相似文献
19.
Dana Longcope Colin Beveridge Jiong Qiu B. Ravindra Graham Barnes Sergio Dasso 《Solar physics》2007,244(1-2):45-73
Observations of the large two-ribbon flare on 7 November 2004 made using SOHO and TRACE data are interpreted in terms of a three-dimensional magnetic field model. Photospheric flux evolution indicates that ?1.4×1043 Mx2 of magnetic helicity was injected into the active region during the 40-hour buildup prior to the flare. The magnetic model places a lower bound of 8×1031 ergs on the energy stored by this motion. It predicts that 5×1021 Mx of flux would need to be reconnected during the flare to release the stored energy. This total reconnection compares favorably with the flux swept up by the flare ribbons, which we measure using high-time-cadence TRACE images in 1?600 Å. Reconnection in the model must occur in a specific sequence that would produce a twisted flux rope containing significantly less flux and helicity (1021 Mx and ?3×1042 Mx2, respectively) than the active region as a whole. The predicted flux compares favorably with values inferred from the magnetic cloud observed by Wind. This combined analysis yields the first quantitative picture of the flux processed through a two-ribbon flare and coronal mass ejection. 相似文献
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Observations of the circumstellar maser emission from the long-period variable star Y Cas in the 1.35-cm water-vapor line are presented. The observations were performed with the RT-22 radio telescope at the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (Astrospace Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) in the period 1982–2005. The variations in the integrated flux Fint in the H2O line correlate with the visual light curve of the star. The phase delay Δ? between the Fint variations and the light curve is 0.2–0.4P (P is the period of the star). The H2O maser Y Cas belongs to transient sources: peaks of high maser activity alternate with intervals of a low emission level when the H2O-line flux does not exceed (0.1–0.5) × 10?20 W m?2. A “superperiod” of ~5.7 yr was found in the occurrence of activity peaks. A particularly strong maximum of maser radio emission took place at the end of 1997, when the flux Fint reached 15.6 × 10?20 W m?2. A model for the H2O maser variability in Y Cas is discussed. The variability is caused by a periodic action of shock waves driven by stellar pulsations. The H2O maser flares may be associated with short-lived episodes of enhanced mass loss by the star or with the propagation of a particularly strong shock wave when a planet orbiting the star passes through its periastron. 相似文献