Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004astl...30..393t&link_type=abstract
Astronomy Letters, vol. 30, p. 393-403 (2004)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
We offer a possible explanation for the observational data on the magnetic-field structure in young supernova remnants (SN 1006, Tycho, Kepler, Cas A) that have been obtained by analyzing the polarizations of electromagnetic radiation in the radio, infrared, and other wavelength ranges. The authors of observational works interpret these data as evidence that the ordered magnetic-field component is predominantly radial, but it can be much smaller in amplitude than the stochastic field component that accounts for the bulk of the total magnetic energy. We calculate the magnetic field in supernova remnants by taking into account the shock compression of the primary field and the generation of a large-scale magnetic field by the particles accelerated at the shock front. The assumption that the field in the supernova remnant is the explosion-compressed primary field near the star is inconsistent with observational data, because the tangential (relative to the shock front) field component perpendicular to the radius must prevail in this case. However, allowing for the generation of an additional magnetic field by the electric current of the particles accelerated by a strong shock front leads us to conclude that the field components parallel to the front are suppressed by accelerated particles by several orders of magnitude. Only the component perpendicular to the front remains. Such a field configuration for uniform injection does not lead to the generation of an additional magnetic field, and, in this sense, it is stable. This explains the data on the radial direction of the ordered field component. As regards the stochastic field component, we show that it is effectively generated by accelerated particles if their injection into acceleration at the shock front is nonuniform along the front. Injection nonuniformity can be caused by upstream density nonuniformities. A relative density nonuniformity of the order of several percent is enough for an observable magnetic field with scales on the order of the density nonuniformity scales to be generated.
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