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
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- 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 - Materia
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Ciencias Astronómicas
(ISM:) cosmic rays
ISM: clouds
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - Nivel de accesibilidad
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- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc |
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High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc |
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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 |
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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 |
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High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc |
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High-energy radiation from collisions of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disc |
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Valle, María Victoria del Müller, A. L. Romero, Gustavo Esteban |
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Valle, María Victoria del |
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Valle, María Victoria del Müller, A. L. Romero, Gustavo Esteban |
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Müller, A. L. Romero, Gustavo Esteban |
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Ciencias Astronómicas (ISM:) cosmic rays ISM: clouds Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal |
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Ciencias Astronómicas (ISM:) cosmic rays ISM: clouds Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal |
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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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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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