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Reconciling the spectrum of Sagittarius A~* with a two-temperature plasma model

机译:用两温等离子体模型调和射手座A〜*的光谱

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The radio source Sagittarius A~* is thought to be powered by gas accreting onto a supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. Using the high infrared accretion rates, however, standard accretion models are unable to explain the observed low luminosity and spectral energy distribution, which has led to the consideration of a new model: advection-dominated accretion flows. In an advection-dominated flow, most of the accretion energy is stored as thermal energy in the gas which is then lost as the gas falls into the black hole. This model requires the protons to have a much higher temperature than the electrons, and the gas therefore has a two-temperature structure. Although this model explains the low total luminosity and much of the spectral energy distribution (from millimetre wavelengths to hard X-rays), it has been difficult to reconcile with low-frequency radio observations. Here we show that a neglected emission process associated with the protons naturally explains the radio observations without any 'fine tuning' of the model parameters. This result simultaneously supports the two-temperature model of the gas and suggests that an advection-dominated accretion flow onto a black hole of 2.5 x 10~6 solar masses provides an accurate description of Sagittarius A~*.
机译:射手座A〜*被认为是由气体吸积到我们银河系中心的一个超大质量黑洞中来提供动力的。但是,使用高的红外吸积率,标准的吸积模型无法解释观察到的低发光度和光谱能量分布,这导致了对新模型的考虑:对流为主的吸积流。在以对流为主的流动中,大部分吸积能量以热能形式存储在气体中,然后随着气体掉入黑洞而损失掉。该模型要求质子具有比电子高得多的温度,因此气体具有双温结构。尽管此模型解释了较低的总发光度和许多光谱能量分布(从毫米波长到硬X射线),但很难与低频无线电观测相协调。在这里,我们表明与质子相关的被忽略的发射过程自然可以解释无线电观测,而无需对模型参数进行任何“微调”。这一结果同时支持了气体的两温模型,并表明以对流为主的吸积流流向太阳质量为2.5 x 10〜6的黑洞时,可以准确地描述人马座A〜*。

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    《Nature》 |1998年第6694期|p.651-653|共3页
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    Rohan Mahadevan;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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