Turbulent Model of Crab Nebula Radiation

Luo, Yonggang; Lyutikov, Maxim; Temim, Tea; Comisso, Luca

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab93c0

Title: Turbulent Model of Crab Nebula Radiation

Journal Article · Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab93c0· OSTI ID:1803039

Luo, Yonggang ^[1];

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Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Space Telescope Science Inst., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Astronomy

We construct a turbulent model of the Crab Nebula's nonthermal emission. The present model resolves a number of long-standing problems of the Kennel–Coroniti model: (i) the sigma problem, (ii) the hard spectrum of radio electrons, (iii) the high peak energy of gamma-ray flares, (iv) and the spatial evolution of the infrared (IR) emission. The Nebula contains two populations of injected particles: Component-I, accelerated at the wind termination shock via the Fermi-I mechanism; and Component-II, accelerated in reconnecting turbulence in highly magnetized (σ >> 1) plasma in the central part of the Crab Nebula. The reconnecting turbulence in Component-II extends from radio to gamma-rays: it accelerates radio electrons with a hard spectrum, destroys the large-scale magnetic flux (and thus resolves the sigma problem), and occasionally produces gamma-ray flares (from the largest-scale reconnection events). The model reproduces the broadband spectrum of the Crab Nebula, from low-frequency synchrotron emission in radio to inverse-Compton emission at TeV energies, as well as the spatially resolved evolution of the spectral indices in the IR and optical bands.

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Research Organization:: Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016542

OSTI ID:: 1803039

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 896, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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