Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-03-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
6 pages, 2 figures, workshop: Polarimetry days in Rome: Crab status, theory and prospects, October 16-17 2008, Rome, Italy
Scientific paper
The main goal of our present work is to provide, for the first time, a simple computational tool that can be used to compute the brightness, the spectral index, the polarization, the time variability and the spectrum of the non-thermal light (both synchrotron and inverse Compton, IC) associated with the plasma dynamics resulting from given relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulations. The proposed method is quite general, and can be applied to any scheme for RMHD and to all non-thermal emitting sources, e.g. pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), and in particular to the Crab Nebula (CN) as in the present proceeding. Here only the linear optical and X-ray polarization that characterizes the PWNe synchrotron emission is analyzed in order to infer information on the inner bulk flow structure, to provide a direct investigation of the magnetic field configuration, in particular the presence and the strength of a poloidal component, and to understand the origin of some emitting features, such as the knot, whose origins are still uncertain. The inverse Compton radiation is examined to disentangle the different contributions to radiation from the magnetic field and the particle energy distribution function, and to search for a possible hadronic component in the emitting PWN, and thus for the presence of ions in the wind. If hadronic radiation was found in a PWN, young supernova remnants would provide a natural birth-place of the cosmic-rays (CRs) up to the so-called knee in the CR spectrum.
Amato Elena
Bucciantini Niccolo
Del Zanna Luca
Volpi Delia
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