UKansas04 seminar 1

TeV Emission from the Galactic Center Black-Hole Plerion: 

TeV Emission from the Galactic Center Black-Hole Plerion Chuck Dermer (US Naval Research Laboratory) dermer@gamma.nrl.navy.mil & Armen Atoyan (Université de Montréal) ApJ Letters, in press (2004) (astro-ph/0410243) University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS November 16, 2004 dermer@gamma.nrl.navy.mil

Galactic Center Region at 90 cm (330 MHz): 

LaRosa et al. (2000) Galactic Center Region at 90 cm (330 MHz) Nonthermal radio-emitting filaments features Large scale magnetic fields and relativistic electrons SNRs, HII regions Poloidal magnetic field within ~100 pc of nucleus Sgr A*: compact radio sources at nucleus of Milky Way

Inner Sagittarius region (4 3 , or 9.37 pc) : 

Inner Sagittarius region (4 3 , or 9.37 pc) 6 cm VLA radio of Sgr A East and Sgr A West (Yusef-Zadeh, Melia, & Wandle 2000) Sgr A East (blue): extremely energetic (1052 ergs) region occurring  50,000 yrs ago from chain of SNRs, a GRB, or star swallowed by BH. Diffuse X-ray emission. Sgr A West (red): Gas and dust streamers ionized by stars and spiraling around the Galactic center, possibly feeding the nucleus. Sgr A*: A bright compact radio source at intersection of the arms of the Sgr A West

Inner few parsecs : 

Inner few parsecs 2 cm VLA radio of Sgr A West Molecular dusty ring (CND) Three-arm spiral of ionized gas and dust streamers (Sgr A West) Evolved and young star clusters Diffuse hot gas SNR Massive BH IRS 7 HCN CND and 1.2 cm Sgr A West images (Yusef-Zadeh & Wandle 1993) (Wright et al. 1993) Sgr A* (4 pc  4 pc ) (0.8 pc  0.8 pc )

Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy: 

R. Genzel, et al. (2004) Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy IR (K-band) observations of stellar radial velocities 1 arcsec = 0.04 pc = 46 lt-days (dGC = 8 kpc) NIR speckle imaging techniques Mass within 0.015 pc  4106 M rS/dGC = 10 marcseconds Eddington luminosity:

Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy: 

R. Genzel, et al. (2004) Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy IR (K-band) observations of stellar radial velocities 1 arcsec = 0.04 pc = 46 lt-days (dGC = 8 kpc) NIR speckle imaging techniques Mass within 0.015 pc  4106 M rS/dGC = 10 marcseconds Eddington luminosity:

Quiescent X-ray Emission from Sgr A*: 

0.5-7 keV Chandra X-ray image overlaid on 6 cm radio image (Baganoff et al. 2003) Quiescent X-ray Emission from Sgr A* X-rays exhibit two different states: 1. Weak quiescent X-ray emission from an extended region  size of 0.6 arcseconds, or 71016 cm  105 rS Luminosity  few 1033 ergs s-1 (3.5 pc  3 pc )

Flaring X-ray Emission from Sgr A*: 

Baganoff et al. (2001) Flaring X-ray Emission from Sgr A* 2. X-ray flares with a period of about one per day, rising by factors up to 100 during several tens of minutes. A distinctive point source becomes visible at the location of SgrA*. The short rise-and-decay times of the flares suggest that the radiation must origin from a region within less than 10 rS

Radio Emission from Sgr A*: 

Falcke et al. 2003 Radio Emission from Sgr A* Radio emission of SgrA* varies slowly on time scales of several days to a few hundred days and generally with an amplitude <10%. Sn  n1/3 Zylka et al. 1995, Zhao et al. 2001 Radio image blurred  l2 by ionized medium, but becomes less at high frequencies (images at 5, 8, 15, 32, and 43GHz).

Resolving Sgr A*: 

Bower et al. (2004) Resolving Sgr A* Intrinsic size of Sgr A* measured using VLBA 242 rS at 7 mm (43 GHz) Theoretical simulations of 1.3 cm images of Sgr A* Falcke, Melia, & Agol (2000)

Slide11: 

HESS: High Energy Stereoscopic System 4 Telescope Array completed Dec 2003 23 16' South Latitude GC: -29  0'

HESS Observations of TeV Emission from Sgr A*: 

HESS Observations of TeV Emission from Sgr A* Aharonian et al. (2004) Two observing campaigns: June/July 2003 (4.7 hrs on-source) July/August 2003 (11.8 hrs on-source) PSF  0.1 Angular distribution of g rays in 3 field Point Source consistent with Sgr A* 6.1s in June/July 9.2s in July/Aug No evidence for variability between the two pointings Galactic Plane feature

HESS Measurements of TeV Angular Distribution: 

HESS Measurements of TeV Angular Distribution Aharonian et al. (2004) Center of gravity of g rays (triangle), 68% and 95% confidence regions for source position (solid ellipses), and 95% confidence of rms source size (dashed ellipse), superimposed over 8.5'8.5' Chandra X-ray map. Angular distribution of g rays Upper limit to source size = 3' 7 pc

HESS Measurements of TeV Spectrum of Galactic Center Source: 

HESS Measurements of TeV Spectrum of Galactic Center Source E2dN/dE spectrum for June/July, July/August campaigns dN/dEE-2.210.2110-8 m-2 s-1TeV-1 (≈5% of the Crab) In agreement with Whipple (Kosack et al. 2004); disagrees with Cangaroo-II (Tsuchiya et al. 2004)

Multiwavelength Observations of Galactic Center Region: 

Aharonian & Neronov (2004) Multiwavelength Observations of Galactic Center Region ~1036 ergs s-1 EGRET emission displaced from direction to GCBH

Previously Proposed Models for TeV Emission : 

g rays from p0 production from secondary nuclear production of cosmic rays (possible accelerated by Sgr A West SNR) Annihilation of supersymmetric dark matter particles (Requires neutralinos of mass > 4-10 TeV) Jet-ADAF model (acceleration in the inner jet from shocks; would expect significant variability) Proton curvature radiation TeV jet models (where is the jet?) Previously Proposed Models for TeV Emission

TeV Radiation from the Galactic Center Black-Hole Plerion: 

F2 F1 Termination shock F1 m . ADAF m . TeV Radiation from the Galactic Center Black-Hole Plerion

Accretion Physics in the ADAF/ADIOS Regime: 

Esin, McClintock, & Narayan (1997) Accretion Physics in the ADAF/ADIOS Regime Advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) model for compact objects accreting at low Eddington accretion rate Radiant luminosity at the level is fraction of accretion power that is advected into black hole or convectively escapes

Second-order Fermi Acceleration in the ADAF: 

Dermer, Miller & Li 1996; Liu, Petrosian, & Melia 2004 Second-order Fermi Acceleration in the ADAF No optically thick accretion disk Second-order stochastic Fermi acceleration for radio-sub mm emission for a region of size 20 rS Equating acceleration rate of electrons by Whistler turbulence to synchrotron loss rate: Steady-state electron spectrum:

Stochastic acceleration model for radio/sub-mm emission: 

Stochastic acceleration model for radio/sub-mm emission Atoyan & Dermer (2004)

The Black Hole Plerion: 

The Black Hole Plerion Particle escape by convective outflow in advection-dominated inflow-outflow source (ADIOS) extension (Blandford & Begelman 1999) of ADAF model. Assume a wind power With speed vwindc/2 directed into solid angle W  1 sr Wind terminates at a subrelativistic shock at found by equating thermal gas pressure with energy density of wind Electrons and protons accelerated by first-order (shock) Fermi acceleration. Electrons emit X-ray synchrotron radiation to form quiescent X-ray emission and Compton scatter ADAF emission 1013 Hz emission from cold dust ring around Sgr A* Neutron Star Plerion: Crab Nebula

Radio/sub-mm, quiescent X-ray, TeV emission: 

Atoyan & Dermer (2004) Radio/sub-mm, quiescent X-ray, TeV emission Atoyan & Dermer (2004)

Flaring Emissions from Inner Region: 

Flaring Emissions from Inner Region Flares from instabilities in accretion flow that form shocks at few rS First-order Fermi shock acceleration injects electrons with g < 106, -2.2 injection index Explains X-ray/NIR flares and short variability timescales from cooling and expansion Self-absorbed flares at < 100 GHz from same electrons in “expanding source” scenario 200 s 1200 s 3600 s ff at 200 s ne = 108 cm-3

Multiwavelength Emission from Sgr A*: 

Multiwavelength Emission from Sgr A* Electron Distribution Very weak > 100 MeV g-ray emission

Galactic Center Black Hole Emission:Sgr A* ADAF + Black-Hole Plerion + Sgr A West, a black-hole remnant: 

Galactic Center Black Hole Emission: Sgr A* ADAF + Black-Hole Plerion + Sgr A West, a black-hole remnant Predict GLAST detection of quasi-stationary Compton and bremsstrahlung fluxes from pc-scale plerion. Propagation of GeV electrons power Sgr A West EGRET emission from young pulsar

Summary : 

TeV radiation from Galactic Center Region: Important Discovery from next generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes Observations imply two emission regions: Inner region near black hole Black hole plerion at the termination shock New insights into black-hole accretion in the extreme ADAF regime for GCBH; advection and convective outflow from central accretion flow X-ray flares are synchrotron emission within ~10 rS of GCBH TeV g rays made by black-hole plerion, first of a new class of nonthermal emitters Quasi-stationary TeV emission (southern hemisphere Crab) Summary

Black Hole Archaeology: 

Measure MBH from g-ray variability Light crossing time-scale: 104 M9 sec Liso from g-ray and multi-wavelength observations Jet opening angle: variability analysis, multiwavelength modeling Black Hole Archaeology Stellar velocity dispersion Reverberation mapping Bulge/BH relation

Slide28: 

The life history of massive and supermassive BHs (within ADAF framework) log10 M/M log10 0 10 0 -10 ULIG PG FR2 - FSRQ FR1 -BL Lac Cluster Merger Track 5  GCBH Field Spiral Track