Collective Ion Acceleration by Relativistic Electron Rings in the Magnetosphere

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 946-953
Author(s):  
U. Schumacher ◽  
R. W. Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Initial Energy ◽  
Local Magnetic Field ◽  
Relativistic Electrons ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Drift Motion ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Constant Altitude ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetospheric Field

Calculations are presented which show that the collective acceleration of ions by rings of relativistic electrons seems feasible in the polar regions of a dipolar magnetospheric field. The well known magnetic field of the earth is taken as an example and it is found that with rings of electrons of only 4 MeV initial energy, deuterons can be accelerated up to energies of about 50 MeV from rest in a distance of one third of an earth radius. Although the drift motion of the electron rings across the magnetic field lines is negligible for latitudes greater than 45°, in the equatorial plane the ring drifts at constant altitude with a speed proportional to the local magnetic field index

scholarly journals The Magnetic Field Near the Local Bubble

1997 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 227-238
Author(s):  
Carl Heiles
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Zeeman Splitting ◽  
Relativistic Electrons ◽  
Local Bubble ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Hi Shells ◽  
The Magnetic Field

AbstractThere are almost no direct observational indicators of the magnetic field inside the local bubble. Just outside the bubble, the best tracers are stellar polarization and HI Zeeman splitting. These show that the local field does not follow the large-scale Galactic field. Here we discuss whether the deformation of the large-scale field by the local HI shells is consistent with the observations. We concentrate on the Loop 1 region, and find that the field lines are well-explained by this idea; in addition, the bright radio filaments of Radio Loop 1 delineate particular field lines that are “lit up” by an excess of relativistic electrons.

scholarly journals Very High-Energy Emission from the Direct Vicinity of Rapidly Rotating Black Holes

Galaxies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouichi Hirotani
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Accretion Rate ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Relativistic Electrons ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
The Magnetic Field

When a black hole accretes plasmas at very low accretion rate, an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is formed. In an ADAF, relativistic electrons emit soft gamma-rays via Bremsstrahlung. Some MeV photons collide with each other to materialize as electron-positron pairs in the magnetosphere. Such pairs efficiently screen the electric field along the magnetic field lines, when the accretion rate is typically greater than 0.03–0.3% of the Eddington rate. However, when the accretion rate becomes smaller than this value, the number density of the created pairs becomes less than the rotationally induced Goldreich–Julian density. In such a charge-starved magnetosphere, an electric field arises along the magnetic field lines to accelerate charged leptons into ultra-relativistic energies, leading to an efficient TeV emission via an inverse-Compton (IC) process, spending a portion of the extracted hole’s rotational energy. In this review, we summarize the stationary lepton accelerator models in black hole magnetospheres. We apply the model to super-massive black holes and demonstrate that nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei are capable of emitting detectable gamma-rays between 0.1 and 30 TeV with the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

scholarly journals Measuring Magnetic Fields from Water Masers Associated with a Synchrotron Protostellar Jet

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (S336) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Ciriaco Goddi ◽  
Gabriele Surcis
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Zeeman Splitting ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Local Magnetic Field ◽  
Mass Star ◽  
Dominant Component ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Water Masers ◽  
The Magnetic Field

AbstractThe Turner-Welch Object in the W3(OH) high-mass star forming complex drives a synchrotron jet, which is quite exceptional for a high-mass protostar, and is associated with a strongly polarized water maser source, W3(H2O), making it an optimal target to investigate the role of magnetic fields on the innermost scales of protostellar disk-jet systems. We report here full polarimetric VLBA observations of water masers. The linearly polarized emission from water masers provides clues on the orientation of the local magnetic field, while the measurement of the Zeeman splitting from circular polarization provides its strength. By combining the information on the measured orientation and strength of the magnetic field with the knowledge of the maser velocities, we infer that the magnetic field evolves from having a dominant component parallel to the outflow velocity in the pre-shock gas (with field strengths of the order of a few tens of mG), to being mainly dominated by the perpendicular component (of order of a few hundred of mG) in the post-shock gas where the water masers are excited. The general implication is that in the undisturbed (i.e. not-shocked) circumstellar gas, the flow velocities would follow closely the magnetic field lines, while in the shocked gas the magnetic field would be re-configured to be parallel to the shock front as a consequence of gas compression.

scholarly journals Magnetic fields in limb solar flares on heights 2–14 Mm

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
V. Lozitsky ◽  
I. Yakovkin ◽  
E. Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Solar Flares ◽  
Zeeman Splitting ◽  
Local Magnetic Field ◽  
Echelle Spectrograph ◽  
Superstrong Magnetic Field ◽  
National University ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
The Magnetic Field

We present the results of observations of two powerful limb solar flares which occured on 17 July 1981 and 14 July 2005. Spectral observations of these flares were carried out with the Echelle spectrograph of the Horizontal Solar Telescope of the Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In order to measure the magnetic fields in these flares, I ± V profiles of К СаІІ, HeI 4471.5 and Нα lines were studied. It was found that effective (averaged) magnetic field Вeff in the flares reached 1100–3000 G on heights 2–14 Mm. However, the spectral evidences to yet stronger fields of ~ 104 G range were found. In particular, the weak spectral evidences of large Zeeman splitting were found in first flare by HeI 4471.5 line; this evidences corresponds to superstrong magnetic field of 15.5 kG. In the second flare, Нα line has non-parallelism of bisectors of I ± V profiles which can reflect existence of 1550–3000 G fields in the flare. However, in frame of simple two-component model these observed values can correspond to true local (amplitude) magnetic fields Вmax in range 4.65–18 kG. Apparently, such superstrong magnetic fields arise in structures of a force-free type, with strong twisting of the field lines. It is precisely such field values that are necessary in solar flares for energy reasons. Indeed, solar flares emit energy in the range of 1027-1032 erg in a volume of the order of 1027 cm3. Elementary calculations show that in order to provide such energy in such a volume, the magnetic field strength should be at least 103 G. In addition, if we take into account that solar magnetic fields have the sub-telescopic (spatially unresolved) structure, then the local magnetic field intensities in the flares at the coronal level can be expected even higher.

scholarly journals Anomalous diffusion across a tera-Gauss magnetic field in accreting neutron stars

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell M. Kulsrud ◽  
Rashid Sunyaev
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Neutron Star ◽  
Flux Distribution ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Neutron Star Mass ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Strong Ideal ◽  
The Magnetic Field

When mass falls on the polar regions of a neutron star in a binary X-ray source system, it tends to spread out over the entire surface. A long-standing question in research on this problem is: will the mass be anchored on the magnetic field lines and drag the field with it or is there a special mechanism that allows the mass to slip through the magnetic field lines, leading to much less distortion? As the amount of mass falling on the neutron star can actually be comparable with the neutron star mass, the question of which alternative holds is very important. We suggest an efficient mechanism that will allow the mass to slip through the lines. The mechanism is based on a strong ideal Schwarzschild (Structure and Evolution of the Stars. Princeton University Press, 1958) instability. As the instability itself is ideal, it cannot directly force the mass to slip though the lines. However, it can create a cascade of eddies whose scale extends down to a resistive scale, at the same time mixing the field lines up without breaking them. On this scale the mass can cross the lines. This instability is efficient enough that it can produce a mass flow in the plasma without growing to a large amplitude but saturates at a small one. The instability determines the mass per flux distribution of the accumulated material on different lines so that the equilibrium is marginal to the instability on every line. This makes the equilibrium unique. Thus, as the extra mass on the neutron star grows, the state of the outer shell proceeds through a sequence of unique critically unstable equilibria. In an appendix, an attempt is made to track the critical equilibria over long times.

scholarly journals ON THE ROLE OF THE CURVATURE DRIFT INSTABILITY IN THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (13) ◽  
pp. 1350081 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZAZA OSMANOV
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Rotational Energy ◽  
Relativistic Electrons ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Drift Instability ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Relativistic Particles

We study the influence of the centrifugally driven curvature drift instability (CDI) on the dynamics of relativistic electrons in the magnetospheres of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We generalize in our previous paper by considering relativistic particles with different initial phases. Considering the Euler continuity and induction equations, by taking into account the resonant conditions, we derive the growth rate of the CDI. We show that due to the centrifugal effects, the rotational energy is efficiently pumped directly into the drift modes, that leads to the generation of a toroidal component of the magnetic field. As a result, the magnetic field lines transform into such a configuration when particles do not experience any forces and since the instability is centrifugally driven, at this stage the CDI is suspended.

scholarly journals Magnetic nulls in interacting dipolar fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Elder ◽  
Allen H. Boozer
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Current Density ◽  
Magnetic Flux Tube ◽  
Electron Inertia ◽  
Characteristic Spatial Scale ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Dipolar Fields ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Magnetic Null ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The prominence of nulls in reconnection theory is due to the expected singular current density and the indeterminacy of field lines at a magnetic null. Electron inertia changes the implications of both features. Magnetic field lines are distinguishable only when their distance of closest approach exceeds a distance $\varDelta _d$ . Electron inertia ensures $\varDelta _d\gtrsim c/\omega _{pe}$ . The lines that lie within a magnetic flux tube of radius $\varDelta _d$ at the place where the field strength $B$ is strongest are fundamentally indistinguishable. If the tube, somewhere along its length, encloses a point where $B=0$ vanishes, then distinguishable lines come no closer to the null than $\approx (a^2c/\omega _{pe})^{1/3}$ , where $a$ is a characteristic spatial scale of the magnetic field. The behaviour of the magnetic field lines in the presence of nulls is studied for a dipole embedded in a spatially constant magnetic field. In addition to the implications of distinguishability, a constraint on the current density at a null is obtained, and the time required for thin current sheets to arise is derived.

Magnetic Field Spectroheliograms from the San Fernando Observatory

1971 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 329-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Vrabec
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Spiral Structure ◽  
Longitudinal Component ◽  
Solar Telescope ◽  
Solar Magnetic Fields ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Field Network

Zeeman spectroheliograms of photospheric magnetic fields (longitudinal component) in the CaI 6102.7 Å line are being obtained with the new 61-cm vacuum solar telescope and spectroheliograph, using the Leighton technique. The structure of the magnetic field network appears identical to the bright photospheric network visible in the cores of many Fraunhofer lines and in CN spectroheliograms, with the exception that polarities are distinguished. This supports the evolving concept that solar magnetic fields outside of sunspots exist in small concentrations of essentially vertically oriented field, roughly clumped to form a network imbedded in the otherwise field-free photosphere. A timelapse spectroheliogram movie sequence spanning 6 hr revealed changes in the magnetic fields, including a systematic outward streaming of small magnetic knots of both polarities within annular areas surrounding several sunspots. The photospheric magnetic fields and a series of filtergrams taken at various wavelengths in the Hα profile starting in the far wing are intercompared in an effort to demonstrate that the dark strands of arch filament systems (AFS) and fibrils map magnetic field lines in the chromosphere. An example of an active region in which the magnetic fields assume a distinct spiral structure is presented.

scholarly journals Efficiency of thermal conduction in a magnetized circumgalactic medium

2021 ◽  
Vol 502 (1) ◽  
pp. 1263-1278
Author(s):  
Richard Kooij ◽  
Asger Grønnow ◽  
Filippo Fraternali
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Thermal Conduction ◽  
Large Temperature ◽  
Gas Condensation ◽  
Circumgalactic Medium ◽  
Field Lines ◽  
Gas Accretion ◽  
Cloud Evolution ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Cold Gas

ABSTRACT The large temperature difference between cold gas clouds around galaxies and the hot haloes that they are moving through suggests that thermal conduction could play an important role in the circumgalactic medium. However, thermal conduction in the presence of a magnetic field is highly anisotropic, being strongly suppressed in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field lines. This is commonly modelled by using a simple prescription that assumes that thermal conduction is isotropic at a certain efficiency f < 1, but its precise value is largely unconstrained. We investigate the efficiency of thermal conduction by comparing the evolution of 3D hydrodynamical (HD) simulations of cold clouds moving through a hot medium, using artificially suppressed isotropic thermal conduction (with f), against 3D magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations with (true) anisotropic thermal conduction. Our main diagnostic is the time evolution of the amount of cold gas in conditions representative of the lower (close to the disc) circumgalactic medium of a Milky-Way-like galaxy. We find that in almost every HD and MHD run, the amount of cold gas increases with time, indicating that hot gas condensation is an important phenomenon that can contribute to gas accretion on to galaxies. For the most realistic orientations of the magnetic field with respect to the cloud motion we find that f is in the range 0.03–0.15. Thermal conduction is thus always highly suppressed, but its effect on the cloud evolution is generally not negligible.

scholarly journals Hydromagnetic dynamos in rotating spherical fluid shells in dependence on the Prandtl number, density stratification and electromagnetic boundary conditions

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Šoltis ◽  
Ján Šimkanin
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Magnetic Diffusion ◽  
Spherical Fluid ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Abstract We present an investigation of dynamo in a simultaneous dependence on the non-uniform stratification, electrical conductivity of the inner core and the Prandtl number. Computations are performed using the MAG dynamo code. In all the investigated cases, the generated magnetic fields are dipolar. Our results show that the dynamos, especially magnetic field structures, are independent in our investigated cases on the electrical conductivity of the inner core. This is in agreement with results obtained in previous analyses. The influence of non-uniform stratification is for our parameters weak, which is understandable because most of the shell is unstably stratified, and the stably stratified region is only a thin layer near the CMB. The teleconvection is not observed in our study. However, the influence of the Prandtl number is strong. The generated magnetic fields do not become weak in the polar regions because the magnetic field inside the tangent cylinder is always regenerated due to the weak magnetic diffusion.

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