期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 712, 期 1, 页码 287-293出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/712/1/287
关键词
acceleration of particles; cosmic rays; magnetic fields; shock waves; ISM: supernova remnants; turbulence
资金
- NASA [ATP02-0042-0006, NNH04Zss001N-LTSA, 06-ATP06-21, NAS8-03060, NNX09AT68G]
- SI Endowment Grant
- NASA [NNX09AT68G, 107665] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We model the broadband emission from supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 including, for the first time, a consistent calculation of thermal X-ray emission together with non-thermal emission in a nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration model. Our model tracks the evolution of the SNR including the plasma ionization state between the forward shock and the contact discontinuity. We use a plasma emissivity code to predict the thermal X-ray emission spectrum assuming the initially cold electrons are heated either by Coulomb collisions with the shock-heated protons (the slowest possible heating), or come into instant equilibration with the protons. For either electron heating model, electrons reach greater than or similar to 10(7) K rapidly and the X-ray line emission near 1 keV is more than 10 times as luminous as the underlying thermal bremsstrahlung continuum. Since recent Suzaku observations show no detectable line emission, this places strong constraints on the unshocked ambient medium density and on the relativistic electron-to-proton ratio. For the uniform circumstellar medium (CSM) models that we consider, the low densities and high relativistic electron-to-proton ratios required to match the Suzaku X-ray observations definitively rule out pion decay as the emission process producing GeV-TeV photons. We show that leptonic models, where inverse-Compton scattering against the cosmic background radiation dominates the GeV-TeV emission, produce better fits to the broadband thermal and non-thermal observations in a uniform CSM.
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