A RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON-POSITRON OUTFLOW FROM A TEPID FIREBALL
| Autor: | Katsuaki Asano, Fumio Takahara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Physics
Active galactic nucleus Scattering Thermodynamic equilibrium Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph) FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics Electron Acceleration Lorentz factor symbols.namesake Positron Space and Planetary Science symbols Radiative transfer |
| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal. 690:L81-L84 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637x/690/1/l81 |
| Popis: | Through detailed numerical simulations, we demonstrate that relativistic outflows (Lorentz factor $\Gamma \sim 7$) of electron-positron pairs can be produced by radiative acceleration even when the flow starts from a nearly pair equilibrium state at subrelativistic temperatures. Contrary to the expectation that pairs annihilate during an expansion stage for such low temperatures, we find that most pairs can survive for the situations obtained in our previous work. This is because in the outflow-generating region the dynamical timescale is short enough even though the fireball is optically thick to scattering. Several problems that should be solved to apply to actual active galactic nucleus jets are discussed. Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, ApJL 690, L81 |
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