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It has been suggested that the highest-energy cosmic rays might be protons resulting from collapsing cosmic strings in the Universe. We point out that this mechanism, although attractive, has important shortcomings, notably the fact that gamma rays produced along with the protons and those produced by the protons in their interactions with the cosmic background radiation generate cascades in the Universe and result in unacceptably high fluxes of cosmic gamma rays in the region of hundreds of MeV. 相似文献
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Konrad Kuijken Xavier Siemens Tanmay Vachaspati 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,384(1):161-164
We consider the signature and detectability of gravitational microlensing of distant quasars by cosmic strings. Because of the simple image configuration such events will have a characteristic lightcurve, in which a source would appear to brighten by exactly a factor of 2, before reverting to its original apparent brightness. We calculate the optical depth and event rate, and conclude that current predictions and limits on the total length of strings on the sky imply optical depths of ≲ 10−8 and event rates of fewer than one event per 109 sources per year. Disregarding those predictions but replacing them with limits on the density of cosmic strings from the cosmic microwave background fluctuation spectrum, leaves only a small region of parameter space (in which the sky contains about 3 × 105 strings with deficit angle of the order of 0.3 milli-seconds) for which a microlensing survey of exposure 107 source years, spanning a 20–40-year period, might reveal the presence of cosmic strings. 相似文献
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We use the f2FF model to study the generation of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) in the context of large field inflation (LFI), described by the potential, V ∼ Mϕp. We compute the magnetic and electric spectra for all possible values of the model parameters under de Sitter and power law expansion. We show that scale invariant PMF are not obtained in LFI to first order in the slow roll approximation, if we impose the constraint V (ϕ = 0) ∼ 0. Alternatively, if these constraints are relaxed, the scale invariant PMF can be generated. The associated electric field energy can fall below the energy density of inflation, ρInf for the ranges of comoving wavenumbers, k > 8 × 10–7 Mpc–1 and k > 4 × 10–6 Mpc–1 in de Sitter and power law (PL) expansion. Further, it can drop below ρInf on the ranges, e‐foldings N > 51, p < 1.66, p > 2.03, l0 > 3 × 105 MPl–1(Hi < 3.3 × 10–6 MPl), and M > 2.8 × 10–3 MPl. All of the above ranges fit with the observational constraints. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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A simulation of accretion of a string loop has been done. It shows that aspherical accretion is essential for large-scale loops. All configurations found in the distribution of galaxies, such as filaments, pancakes, bubbles, and voids, can be formed by the accretion of cosmic strings. 相似文献
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E. N. Parker 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1973,24(1):279-288
The origin and behavior of cosmic rays in the Galaxy depends crucially upon whether the galactic magnetic field has a closed topology, as does the field of Earth, or whether a major fraction of the lines of force connect into extragalactic space. If the latter, then cosmic rays could be of extragalactic origin, or they could be of galactic origin, detained in the Galaxy by the scattering offered by hydromagnetic waves, etc. If, on the other hand, the field is largely closed, then cosmic rays cannot be of extragalactic origin (at least below 1016 eV). They must be of galactic origin and escape because their collective pressure inflates the galactic field and they push their way out.This paper examines the structure of a galactic field that opens initially into intergalactic space and, with the inclusion of turbulent diffusion, finds no possibility for maintaining a significant magnetic connection with an extragalactic field. Unless some mechanism can be found, we are forced to the conclusion that the field is closed, that cosmic rays are of galactic origin, and that cosmic rays escape from the Galaxy only by pushing their way out. 相似文献
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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are known to be produced from collapsing cosmic defects such as domain walls and strings. In this paper we show how PBHs are produced in monopole-string networks. 相似文献
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Sunil Kumar Tripathy Dipanjali Behera Tushar Ranjan Routray 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2010,325(1):93-97
Spatially homogeneous and anisotropic LRS Bianchi type-I string cosmological models are studied in the frame work of general
relativity when the source for the energy momentum tensor is a bulk viscous fluid containing one dimensional strings. A barotropic
equation of state for the pressure and density is assumed to get determinate solutions of the field equations. The bulk viscous
pressure is assumed to be proportional to the energy density. The physical and kinematical properties of the models are discussed.
The role of bulk viscosity in getting an inflationary phase in the universe is studied. 相似文献
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José Antonio Belinchón 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2009,323(3):307-315
We study a massive cosmic strings with BII symmetries cosmological models in two contexts. The first of them is the standard
one with a barotropic equation of state. In the second one we explore the possibility of taking into account variable “constants”
(G and Λ). Both models are studied under the self-similar hypothesis. We put special emphasis in calculating the numerical values
for the equations of state. We find that for ω∈(0,1], G, is a growing time function while Λ, behaves as positive decreasing time function. If ω=0, both “constants”, G and Λ, behave as true constants. 相似文献
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The possible interpretation of such astrophysical objects as quasars, the new class of supernova remnants, 0.511 MeV intense annihilation line, and the exotic binary system SS 433 has been given based on the string theory. 相似文献
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An interstellar medium consisting of regular and turbulent magnetic fields, thermal gas and cosmic rays is tested for stability in a stellar gravitational field. Cosmic rays are described by the diffusion-convection equation and the stability region of the system is determined. It is shown that the presence of cosmic rays is a stabilizing factor if the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient is sufficiently small. The dependence of the maximum growth rate of instability on the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient is qualitatively determined. 相似文献
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Trajectories of solar cosmic rays have been calculated in a static ninth-order coronal magnetic field. It is found that as a result of field curvature and gradients, protons drift across the field lines at a rate of up to 200
2 deg hr–1. These drift rates are of the same order as, but somewhat smaller than, empirically derived rates. Localized enhancements of magnetic field have been inserted into the ninth-order field in order to model (in a highly idealized manner) the effects of the small-scale magnetic features which give rise to X-ray bright points. The motions of the particles in the presence of these scattering centers can be parameterized approximately by a cross-field diffusion coefficient. Our estimates of this coefficient, although crude, overlap with empirical values which have been deduced over a wide range of energies.We propose that coronal propagation of solar cosmic rays has two components. One is independent of particle velocity, and is associated with dynamic field phenomena (such as an expanding magnetic bottle): this is the only component which is important in flares which occur close to the foot-point of the Sun-Earth field line. The second component is velocity dependent, but is independent of mass, and is associated with scattering off (relatively static) magnetic inhomogeneities with scale sizes of at least 500 km: the second component contributes to coronal propagation if the flare occurs more than about 50–60 deg away from the Sun-Earth field line. 相似文献
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Martin Beech 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1985,114(2):345-350
In the standard cosmological model symmetry breaking in grand unified theories will occur at times 10–39 s after the initial singularity when the Universe has cooled to a temperature 1016 GeV. We investigate here whether it is possible for a uniform, large-scale, magnetic field present in the early universe to delay significantly the time at which symmetry breaking occurs. Given the present magnitude of the intergalactic B-field (10–11–10–9 G) it is found that no significant effects are introduced. 相似文献
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In this paper we demonstrate the importance of cosmic rays for the dynamics of the interstellar medium. We present the first
3D-MHD numerical simulations of the Parker instability triggered by cosmic rays accelerated in supernova remnants. We show
that in the presence of galactic rotation a net radial magnetic field is produced as a result of the cosmic ray injection.
This process provides a very efficient magnetic field amplification within the general frame of so called fast galactic dynamo proposed by Parker (1992).
This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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We study the influence of the regular component of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) on the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We find that, if the angular resolution of current experiments has to be fully exploited, deflections in the GMF cannot be neglected even for E = 1020 eV protons, especially for trajectories along the Galactic plane or crossing the Galactic center region. On the other hand, the GMF could be used as a spectrograph to discriminate among different source models and/or primaries of UHECRs, if its structure would be known with sufficient precision. We compare several GMF models introduced in the literature and discuss for the example of the AGASA data set how the significance of small-scale clustering or correlations with given astrophysical sources are affected by the GMF. We point out that the non-uniform exposure to the extragalactic sky induced by the GMF should be taken into account estimating the significance of potential (auto-) correlation signals. 相似文献
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One-, two- and three-dimensional numerical results of the non-linear interaction between cosmic rays and a magnetic field are presented. These show that cosmic ray streaming drives large-amplitude Alfvénic waves. The cosmic ray streaming energy is very efficiently transferred to the perturbed magnetic field of the Alfvén waves, and the non-linear time-scale of the growth of the waves is found to be very rapid, of the order of the gyro-period of the cosmic ray. Thus, a magnetic field of interstellar values, assumed in models of supernova remnant blast wave acceleration, would not be appropriate in the region of the shock. The increased magnetic field reduces the cosmic ray acceleration time and so increases the maximum cosmic ray energy, which may provide a simple and elegant resolution to the highest energy Galactic cosmic ray problem, where the cosmic rays themselves provide the fields necessary for their acceleration. 相似文献