Generation of a Fireball in AGN Hot Plasmas
Abstract
Motivated by relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN), we simulate outflows of electron-positron pairs strongly coupled with photons from normal electron-proton plasmas. Using multi-fluid approximation and a Monte Carlo method of radiative transfer, we obtain spherically symmetric, steady solutions of radiation and pair outflows for the luminosity erg . For microphysics, Coulomb scattering, Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung, electron-positron pair annihilation and creation are taken into account. Although a significant amount of pairs outflow by powerful radiative force with a mildly relativistic velocity, the temperature is not high enough to avoid pair annihilation before the fireball becomes optically thin to scattering. Several caveats in the simulations are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611142,
title = {Generation of a Fireball in AGN Hot Plasmas},
author = {Katsuaki Asano and Fumio Takahara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611142},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
20 pages, 7figures. accepted for publication in ApJ