High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc

Autores
Valle, María Victoria del; Müller, A. L.; Romero, Gustavo Esteban
Año de publicación
2018
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High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar clouds of atomic hydrogen that do not follow normal Galactic rotation and have velocities of a several hundred kilometres per second. A considerable number of these clouds are falling down towards the Galactic disc. HVCs form large and massive complexes, so if they collide with the disc a great amount of energy would be released into the interstellar medium. The cloud-disc interaction produces two shocks: one propagates through the cloud and the other through the disc. The properties of these shocks depend mainly on the cloud velocity and the disc-cloud density ratio. In this work, we study the conditions necessary for these shocks to accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration and we study the non-thermal radiation that is produced. We analyse particle acceleration in both the cloud and disc shocks. Solving a time-dependent two-dimensional transport equation for both relativistic electrons and protons, we obtain particle distributions and non-thermal spectral energy distributions. In a shocked cloud, significant synchrotron radio emission is produced along with soft gamma rays. In the case of acceleration in the shocked disc, the non-thermal radiation is stronger; the gamma rays, of leptonic origin, might be detectable with current instruments. A large number of protons are injected into the Galactic interstellar medium, and locally exceed the cosmic ray background. We conclude that under adequate conditions the contribution from HVC-disc collisions to the galactic population of relativistic particles and the associated extended non-thermal radiation might be important.
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
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Ciencias Astronómicas
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ISM: clouds
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
title High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
spellingShingle High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
Valle, María Victoria del
Ciencias Astronómicas
(ISM:) cosmic rays
ISM: clouds
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
title_short High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
title_full High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
title_fullStr High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
title_full_unstemmed High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
title_sort High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Valle, María Victoria del
Müller, A. L.
Romero, Gustavo Esteban
author Valle, María Victoria del
author_facet Valle, María Victoria del
Müller, A. L.
Romero, Gustavo Esteban
author_role author
author2 Müller, A. L.
Romero, Gustavo Esteban
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
(ISM:) cosmic rays
ISM: clouds
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
(ISM:) cosmic rays
ISM: clouds
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar clouds of atomic hydrogen that do not follow normal Galactic rotation and have velocities of a several hundred kilometres per second. A considerable number of these clouds are falling down towards the Galactic disc. HVCs form large and massive complexes, so if they collide with the disc a great amount of energy would be released into the interstellar medium. The cloud-disc interaction produces two shocks: one propagates through the cloud and the other through the disc. The properties of these shocks depend mainly on the cloud velocity and the disc-cloud density ratio. In this work, we study the conditions necessary for these shocks to accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration and we study the non-thermal radiation that is produced. We analyse particle acceleration in both the cloud and disc shocks. Solving a time-dependent two-dimensional transport equation for both relativistic electrons and protons, we obtain particle distributions and non-thermal spectral energy distributions. In a shocked cloud, significant synchrotron radio emission is produced along with soft gamma rays. In the case of acceleration in the shocked disc, the non-thermal radiation is stronger; the gamma rays, of leptonic origin, might be detectable with current instruments. A large number of protons are injected into the Galactic interstellar medium, and locally exceed the cosmic ray background. We conclude that under adequate conditions the contribution from HVC-disc collisions to the galactic population of relativistic particles and the associated extended non-thermal radiation might be important.
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
description High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar clouds of atomic hydrogen that do not follow normal Galactic rotation and have velocities of a several hundred kilometres per second. A considerable number of these clouds are falling down towards the Galactic disc. HVCs form large and massive complexes, so if they collide with the disc a great amount of energy would be released into the interstellar medium. The cloud-disc interaction produces two shocks: one propagates through the cloud and the other through the disc. The properties of these shocks depend mainly on the cloud velocity and the disc-cloud density ratio. In this work, we study the conditions necessary for these shocks to accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration and we study the non-thermal radiation that is produced. We analyse particle acceleration in both the cloud and disc shocks. Solving a time-dependent two-dimensional transport equation for both relativistic electrons and protons, we obtain particle distributions and non-thermal spectral energy distributions. In a shocked cloud, significant synchrotron radio emission is produced along with soft gamma rays. In the case of acceleration in the shocked disc, the non-thermal radiation is stronger; the gamma rays, of leptonic origin, might be detectable with current instruments. A large number of protons are injected into the Galactic interstellar medium, and locally exceed the cosmic ray background. We conclude that under adequate conditions the contribution from HVC-disc collisions to the galactic population of relativistic particles and the associated extended non-thermal radiation might be important.
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