Theoretical overview on high-energy emission in microquasars |
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| Authors: | Valentí Bosch-Ramon |
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| Institution: | (1) Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Microquasar (MQ) jets are sites of particle acceleration and synchrotron emission. Such synchrotron radiation has been detected
coming from jet regions of different spatial scales, which for the instruments at work nowadays appear as compact radio cores,
slightly resolvedradio jets, or (very) extended structures (e.g. Mirabel and Rodríguez, 1999; Fender, 2001; Corbel et al., 2002). Because of the presence of relativistic particles and dense photon, magnetic and matter fields, these outflows are also
the best candidates to generate the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays detected coming from two of these objects, LS 5039 and
LS I +61 303 (Aharonian, 2005; Aharonian et al., 2006a; and Albert, 2006, respectively), and may be contributing significantly to the X-rays emitted from the MQ core (e.g. Markoff et al., 2001; Bosch-Ramon et al., 2005a). In addition, beside electromagnetic radiation, jets at different scales are producing some amount of leptonic and hadronic
cosmic rays (CR), and evidences of neutrino production in these objects may be eventually found. In this work, we review on
the different physical processes that may be at work in or related to MQ jets. The jet regions capable to produce significant
amounts of emission at different wavelengths have been reduced to the jet base, the jet at scales of the order of the size
of the system orbital semi-major axis, the jet middle scales (the resolved radio jets), and the jet termination point. The
surroundings of the jet could be sites of multiwavelength emission as well, deserving also an insight. We focus on those scenarios,
either hadronic or leptonic, in which it seems more plausible to generate both photons from radio to VHE and high-energy neutrinos.
We briefly comment as well on the relevance of MQ as possible contributors to the galactic CR in the GeV–PeV range. |
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| Keywords: | Microquasars Jets Gamma-rays: theory Multiwavelength: theory Neutrinos |
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