分类： 物理学 >> 地球物理学、天文学和天体物理学 提交时间： 2023-12-15 合作期刊: 《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》
摘要： Precise measurements of energy spectra of different cosmic ray (CR) species have been obtained in recent years, by particularly the AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station. It has been shown that apparent differences exist in different groups of the primary CRs. However, it is not straightforward to conclude that the source spectra of different particle groups are different since they will experience different propagation processes (e.g., energy losses and fragmentations) either. In this work, we study the injection spectra of different nuclear species using the measurements from Voyager-1 outside the solar system, and ACR-CRIS and AMS-02 on the top of atmosphere, in a physical framework of CR transportation. Two types of injection spectra are assumed, the broken power-law (BPL) form and the non-parametric spline interpolation form. The non-parametric form fits the data better than the BPL form, implying that potential structures beyond the constrained spectral shape of BPL may exist. For different nuclei the injection spectra are overall similar in shape but do show some differences among each other. For the non-parametric spectral form, the helium injection spectrum is the softest at low energies and the hardest at high energies. For both spectral shapes, the low-energy injection spectrum of neon is the hardest among all these species, and the carbon and oxygen spectra have more prominent bumps in 1–10 GV in thepresentation. Such differences suggest the existence of differences in the sources or acceleration processes of various nuclei of CRs.
分类： 核科学技术 >> 辐射物理与技术 提交时间： 2024-05-26
摘要： The Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope (VLAST) is a mission concept proposed to detect gamma#2;ray photons through both Compton scattering and electron-positron pair production mechanisms, thus enablingthe detection of photons with energies ranging from MeV to TeV. This project aims to conduct a comprehensivesurvey of the gamma-ray sky from a low-Earth orbit using an anti-coincidence detector, a tracker detectorthat also serves as a low-energy calorimeter, and a high-energy imaging calorimeter. We developed a MonteCarlo simulation application of the detector using the GEANT4 toolkit to evaluate the instrument performance,including the effective area, angular resolution, and energy resolution, and explored specific optimizations ofthe detector configuration. Our simulation-based analysis indicates that the current design of the VLAST isphysically feasible, with an acceptance above 10 m2 sr which is four times larger than that of the Fermi-LAT,an energy resolution better than 2% at 10 GeV, and an angular resolution better than 0.2 ◦ at 10 GeV. TheVLAST project promises to make significant contributions to the field of gamma ray astronomy and enhanceour understanding of the cosmos.
分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： Recently, the evidence for gamma-ray emission has been found in the $Fermi$-LAT observation for the outer halo of Andromeda galaxy (M31). The dark matter (DM) annihilation offers a possible explanation on the gamma-ray radiation. In this work, we focus on the dark matter annihilation within minispikes around intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses ranging from $100~\mathrm{M_\odot}$ to $10^6~\mathrm{M_\odot}$. When the thermal annihilation relic cross section $\left\langle \sigma v \right\rangle = 3 \times 10^{-26}~\mathrm {cm} ^{3}\;\mathrm {s} ^{-1}$ is adopted, we conduct an investigation on the population of IMBHs in the spherical halo area of M31. We find that there could be more than 65 IMBHs with masses of $ 100~ \mathrm{M_\odot}$ surrounded by the DM minispikes as the remnants of Population III stars in the M31 spherical halo, and it is almost impossible for the existence of minspikes around IMBHs with masses above $10^4~ \mathrm{M_\odot}$ which could be formed by the collapse of primordial cold gas, for both dark matter annihilation channels $b\bar{b}$ and $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$. The properties of dark matter have been further explored with the simulation of these two scenarios for IMBHs formation.
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