Cosmic ray acceleration and non-thermal emission from fast luminous optical transient sources
arXiv:2402.10497 · doi:10.1016/j.asr.2024.02.018
Abstract
Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) represent a new class of highly energetic sources observed from radio to X-rays. High luminosity, light curves and spectra of the sources can be understood if they are associated with supernova-like or tidal disruption events. Radio observations of the transient sources revealed a mildly relativistic expansion of some of the remnants. The high power and mildly relativistic shock velocities are providing favorable conditions for very high energy particle acceleration. In this paper we present a model of particle acceleration in mildly relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) outflow of the transient source. To construct the non-thermal radiation and cosmic ray spectra in a broad range of energies we combined the microscopic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of electron and proton injection at mildly relativistic shock with Monte Carlo technique for high energy particle transport and acceleration. The kinetic PIC simulations provided the energy partition parameter used to fit the observed non-thermal radio emission using the magnetic field amplification mechanisms modelled with Monte Carlo simulations. The model allowed to describe the radio-spectrum of CSS161010 and it's X-ray luminosity. The high X-ray luminosity of AT2018 and AT2020mrf detected during the first weeks can be connected to the jet interaction with the stellar companion in a binary system. The model predicts that FBOTs can accelerate cosmic rays to energies above 10 PeV with a possible upper limit of maximum energy of 100 PeV. With the expected event rate of FBOTs they can contribute to the very high energy cosmic rays population in galaxies.
arXiv comment11 pages, 8 figures
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