Gamma-ray emission from an accretion flow around a Kerr black hole     

Kazutaka Oka  Tadahiro Manmoto 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,340(2):543-550

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Quasars, their host galaxies and their central black holes     

J. S. Dunlop  R. J. McLure  M. J. Kukula  S. A. Baum  C. P. O'Dea  D. H. Hughes 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,340(4):1095-1135

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库仑耦合效应对类太阳恒星模型的影响     

赵承均 《天文学报》2003,44(3):256-269

物态方程一直是恒星模型理论研究中的最重要的物理方程之一，对于日震学等高精度要求的研究领域来讲，只包含理想效应的物态方程并不能满足研究需要，而要更细致、包含非理想效应的物态方程对系统作更精确和完善的描述，在弱耦合及弱电子简并的系统中，为研究各种带电粒子之间的库仑耦合效应，以化学图像为基础，分别用具有硬核改正的Debye—Hueckel扩展理论来处理离子-电子作用、多体作用的经典点粒子相互作用理论描述离子-离子作用和量子统计方法处理电子-电子作用，并把此3种作用对物态方程自由能的贡献用半解析的数学公式给出，为适应日震学研究的要求，特别选取一组类太阳的恒星模型作为研究对象，从实际模型计算出发，对库仑耦合中的各种效应进行了比较分析，讨论并检验了所作的理论改进。  相似文献   

The shallow magnitude distribution of asteroid families     

A. Morbidelli  D. Nesvorný  P. Michel  P. Tanga 《Icarus》2003,162(2):328-336

It is well known that asteroid families have steeper absolute magnitude (H) distributions for H < 12-13 values than the background population. Beyond this threshold, the shapes of the absolute magnitude distributions in the family/background populations are difficult to determine, primarily because both populations are not yet observationally complete. Using a recently generated catalog containing the proper elements of 106,284 main belt asteroids and an innovative approach, we debiased the absolute magnitude distribution of the major asteroid families relative to the local background populations. Our results indicate that the magnitude distributions of asteroid families are generally not steeper than those of the local background populations for H > 13 (i.e., roughly for diameters smaller than 10 km). In particular, most families have shallower magnitude distributions than the background in the range 15-17 mag. Thus, we conclude that, contrary to previous speculations, the population of kilometer-size asteroids in the main belt is dominated by background bodies rather than by members of the most prominent asteroid families. We believe this result explains why the Spacewatch, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and Subaru asteroid surveys all derived a shallow magnitude distribution for the dimmer members of the main belt population.We speculate on a few dynamical and collisional scenarios that can explain this shallow distribution. One possibility is that the original magnitude distributions of the families (i.e., at the moment of the formation event) were very shallow for H larger than ∼ 13, and that most families have not yet had the time to collisionally evolve to the equilibrium magnitude distribution that presumably characterizes the background population. A second possibility is that family members smaller than about 10 km, eroded over time by collisional and dynamical processes, have not yet been repopulated by the break-up of larger family members. For this same reason, the older (and possibly characterized by a weaker impact strength) background population shows a shallow distribution in the range 15-60 km.  相似文献   

Chemical sources of haze formation in Titan's atmosphere     

E. H. Wilson  S. K. Atreya 《Planetary and Space Science》2003,51(14-15):1017

A prominent feature of Titan's atmosphere is a thick haze region that acts as the end product of hydrocarbon and nitrile chemistry. Using a one-dimensional photochemical model, an investigation into the chemical mechanisms responsible for the formation of this haze region is conducted. The model derives profiles for Titan's atmospheric constituents that are consistent with observations. Included is an updated benzene profile that matches more closely with—recent ISO observations (Icarus 161 (2003) 383), replacing the profile given in the benzene study of Wilson et al. (J. Geophys. Res. 108 (2003) 5014). Using these profiles, pathways from polyynes, aromatics, and nitriles are considered, as well as possible copolymerization among the pathways. The model demonstrates that the growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons throughout the lower stratosphere plays an important role in furnishing the main haze layer, with nitriles playing a secondary role. The peak chemical production of haze layer ranges from 140 to 300 km peaking at an altitude of 220 km, with a production rate of 3.2×10⁻¹⁴ gcm⁻² s⁻¹. Possible mechanisms for polymerization and copolymerization and suggestions for further kinetic study are discussed, along with the implications for the distribution of haze in Titan's atmosphere.  相似文献   

Interacting ellipsoids: a minimal model for the dynamics of rubble-pile bodies     

F. Roig  R. Duffard  D. Lazzaro 《Icarus》2003,165(2):355-370

A simple mechanical model is formulated to study the dynamics of rubble-pile asteroids, formed by the gravitational re-accumulation of fragments after the collisional breakup of a parent body. In this model, a rubble-pile consists of N interacting fragments represented by rigid ellipsoids, and the equations of motion explicitly incorporate the minimal degrees of freedom necessary to describe the attitude and rotational state of each fragment. In spite of its simplicity, our numerical examples indicate that the overall behavior of our model is in line with several known properties of collisional events, like the energy and angular momentum partition during high velocity impacts. Therefore, it may be considered as a well defined minimal model.  相似文献   

A good long look at the black hole candidates LMC X-1 and LMC X-3     

M. A. Nowak  J. Wilms  W. A. Heindl  K. Pottschmidt  J. B. Dove  M. C. Begelman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,320(3):316-326

LMC X-1 and LMC X-3 are the only known persistent stellar-mass black-hole candidates that have almost always shown spectra that are dominated by a soft, thermal component. We present here results from 170-ks-long Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) observations of these objects, taken in 1996 December, where their spectra can be described by a disc blackbody plus an additional soft     high-energy power law (detected up to energies of 50 keV in LMC X-3). These observations, as well as archival Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics ( ASCA ) observations, constrain any narrow Fe line present in the spectra to have an equivalent width ≲90 eV. Stronger, broad lines (≈150 eV EW,     are permitted. We also study the variability of LMC X-1. Its X-ray power spectral density (PSD) is approximately proportional to     between 10⁻³ and 0.3 Hz with a root-mean-square (rms) variability of ≈7 per cent. At energies >5 keV, the PSD shows evidence of a break at     possibly indicating an outer disc radius of ≲1000  GM c ² in this likely wind-fed system. Furthermore, the coherence function     a measure of the degree of linear correlation between variability in the >5 keV band and variability in the lower energy bands, is extremely low (≲50 per cent). We discuss the implications of these observations for the mechanisms that might be producing the soft and hard X-rays in these systems.  相似文献   

Fast transition between high-soft and low-soft states in GRS 1915 + 105: Evidence for a critically viscous accretion flow     

S. Naik  A. R. Rao  Sandip K. Chakrabarti 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2002,23(3-4):213-233

We present the results of a detailed analysis of RXTE observations of classω (Klein-Woltet al. 2002) which show an unusual state transition between high-soft and low-soft states in the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915 + 105. Out of about 600 pointed RXTE observations, the source was found to exhibit such state transition only on 16 occasions. An examination of the RXTE/ASM data in conjunction with the pointed observations reveals that these events appeared as a series of quasi-regular dips in two stretches of long duration (about 20 days during each occasion) when hard X-ray and radio flux were very low. The X-ray light curve and colour-colour diagram of the source during these observations are found to be different from any reported so far. The duration of these dips is found to be of the order of a few tens of seconds with a repetition time of a few hundred seconds. The transition between these dips and non-dips which differ in intensity by a factor of ∼ 3.5, is observed to be very fast (∼ a few seconds). It is observed that the low-frequency narrow QPOs are absent in the power density spectrum (PDS) of the dip and non-dip regions of classω and the PDS is a power law in the 0.1–10 Hz frequency range. There is a remarkable similarity in the spectral and timing properties of the source during the dip and non-dip regions in this set of observations. These properties of the source are distinctly different from those seen in the observations of other classes. This indicates that the basic accretion disk structure during both dip and non-dip regions of classω is similar, but differ only in intensity. To explain these observations, we invoke a model in which the viscosity is very close to critical viscosity and the shock wave is weak or absent.  相似文献   

黑洞X射线双星的类氢类氦铁K_α发射线     

许亚娣  刘当波  陈磊  徐海光  尤峻汉 《天文学报》2002,(3)

用径移主导吸积流模型(ADAF)不仅可以成功解释很多低吸积率天体的连续谱辐射,也可以说明X射线波段的谱线发射,而后者目前尚少有讨论.以黑洞X射线双星GX339-4处在低吸积率的宁静态情况为例,计算了它的铁线发射,表明在ADAF情况下的确可以产生足够强的可以在观测上检测的类氢和类氦铁Kα线.  相似文献   

The evolution and efficiency of energy release of magnetized black-hole accretion disks     

Kan Xiao  Ding-xiong Wang  Wei-hua Lei 《Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics》2002,26(4):20-397

On the basis of the equivalent circuit model, we investigate two different mechanisms of extracting energy of rotation and angular momentum from a black hole by magnetic field, namely, the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process and the magnetic coupling (MC) process. The contributions to the efficiency of energy release via pure accretion process, BZ process and MC process are compared in detail by studying the evolutionary characteristics of the spin parameter of the black hole at the center of the magnetized accretion disk. It is shown that the MC process is an important new mechanism of extracting energy from the rotating black hole and its efficiency of energy release is almost as high as that of the BZ process. The efficiency of energy release via pure accretion process is higher than those of BZ process and magnetic coupling process. However, when the rotation of a black hole approaches that of an extreme Kerr black hole,the efficiency of energy release is mainly due to the contributions of BZ process and MC process.  相似文献