Effect of magnetic field correlation length on the gamma-ray pulsar halo morphology under anisotropic diffusion
| Autor: | Fang, Kun, Hu, Hong-Bo, Bi, Xiao-Jun, Chen, En-Sheng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.023017 |
| Popis: | Anisotropic diffusion is one of the potential interpretations for the morphology of the Geminga pulsar halo. It interprets the observed slow-diffusion phenomenon through a geometric effect, assuming the mean magnetic field direction around Geminga is closely aligned with the line of sight toward it. However, this direction should not extend further than the correlation length of the turbulent magnetic field $L_c$, which could be $100$ pc or less. We first revisit the $L_c=\infty$ scenario and show that the halo asymmetry predicted by this scenario is mainly contributed by the electrons located beyond the ``core" section around Geminga, which has a length of $100$ pc. Then, considering the directional variation of the magnetic field beyond the core section, we take one magnetic field configuration as an example to investigate the possible halo morphology. The predicted morphology has some different features compared to the $L_c=\infty$ scenario. The current experiments may already be able to test these features. In addition, we use a semi-analytical method to solve the anisotropic propagation equation, which offers significant convenience compared to numerical approaches. Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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