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Fermi Collaboration Meeting A Brief Overview, and Recent Developments in the Theory of High-Energy Emission from the Crab Nebula Fermi Collaboration Meeting CERN, 30 March 2017 John J. Kroon Space Science Division Naval Research Laboratory Collaborators: Justin D. Finke (NRL) Peter A. Becker (GMU) Charles D. Dermer (NRL) 1

The Crab Nebula Crab Harding 2013 2

Wind pressure=Nebula pressure Pulsar Wind Nebula Buehler & Blandford (2014) Rees & Gunn (1974) Wind pressure=Nebula pressure τ=963 yrs RN=2 pc Rs≈3*1017 cm 3

Pulsar Wind Nebula MHD model of pulsar wind (Kennel & Coroniti 1984) RN RS v<<c v~c upstream downstream Model parameters: Pulsar luminosity, L Shock radius, RS Nebula radius, RN Magnetization parameter, σ Preshock wind four-velocity, u1 Particle spectral index, 2α+1 Power-law distribution from shock acceleration (1st Order Fermi) 4

Shock Acceleration Shock acceleration (Fermi 1949, Blandford & Ostriker 1978) at termination shockquiescent spectrum. Mediated by MHD scattering centers. Toroidal magnetic field (parallel to TS), reduces likelihood of particles being recycled back upstream. “Shock-regulated escape”: lowest energy particles are more likely to advect downstream. 5

Shock-Regulated Escape (SRE) : High Energy electron : Low Energy electron 6

Gamma-Ray Flares from Crab Nebula Rapid variability observed in Fermi-LAT gamma-ray flares. Gamma-ray flares observed in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013. Flares were unexpected! Peak L=4*1036 ergs/s Spin L=5*1038 ergs/s Total E=3*1042 ergs 7

Broadband SED and Flare Spectra Harding et al. (2008) Colored: Fermi Flare spectra (2009-2013) 8

Challenges of Theory How do the particles end up with most of the magnetic energy downstream of the TS? Synchrotron “burn-off” limit? (radiation reaction limited emission) γMHD found by equating maximum MHD acceleration rate with synchrotron loss rate. At r<RS: σ~103-104 At r≥RS: σ«1 “σ problem” >3 GeV photons observed in flares! **ς and ξ are order unity model parameters from Kroon et al. (2016)** 9

The Fermi Era: Powerful γ-ray Flares Classical Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) can’t explain the energetic/temporal features of the flares, but works well for long term quiescent state emission. Magnetic reconnection can explain it (non-ideal MHD). Fermi observed >3 GeV emission from some of the flares. (Peak around 400 MeV) E/B>1, boosts Emax above burnoff limit. Abdo et al. (2011) Feb. 2009 Sept. 2010 10

Reconnection Simulations PIC simulations of shock-driven reconnection, Cerutti et al. (2013). Shock-driven magnetic reconnection provides a powerful mechanism to explain the flares. BUT simulation generated spectra don’t reproduce the observed spectra… 11

Cerutti, Werner, Uzdensky, & Begelman (2014) Reconnection simulations demonstrate efficient electrostatic acceleration, but the resulting spectra do not fit the observational data very well. 12

100 MeV Quiescent spectrum Buehler & Blandford (2014) 13

100 MeV 1 GeV Flare spectra are significantly above quiescent flux and burn-off limit energy. Quiescent Spectrum Synchrotron Burnoff Buehler & Blandford (2014) 14

New Theoretical Model (Kroon et al. 2016) 1st Order processes Momentum diffusion Synch. losses 2nd Order Stochastic Acceleration Electrostatic + Shock Acceleration Synchrotron Losses Injection Spectrum SRE+Bohm Diffusive Escape Analytic models are more useful than simulations for fitting datacomputational time, variation of parameters. 15

Analytical Solution Steady-state solution for the electron number distribution: With the analytic solution, we can perform an integral convolution with the synchrotron emissivity function. The synchrotron flux at the detector is given by where D is the distance to the source. How does this analytic model compare with the observed flare spectra?... 16

Flare Spectral Fits (Kroon et al. 2016) These are the most successful theoretical calculations of the Crab nebula flare spectra to date! *Kroon et al. (2016) 17

Afterglow Spectra for April 2011 Flare 18

Conclusions Prior Models DSA dominates acceleration during quiescence. MHD flow transport is more efficient than spatial diffusion. Kroon et al. (2016) Model Electrostatic acceleration via shock-driven reconnection provides most of the power for the flares. Shock acceleration and stochastic MHD acceleration are also important for determining the spectral shapes. The NRL/GMU collaboration is currently developing a time-dependent model for the gamma-ray flares, and the preliminary results are very interesting! Fermi has discovered new mysterious acceleration processes that have challenged our understanding of HE astrophysics and led to new insights! 19

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Data Table Significant electrostatic acceleration in April 2011 and March 2013 flares, E/B~2-3. The sigma parameter, σ<1, shows that model is consistent with MHD physics. This process efficiently converts Poynting flux into relativistic particle energy, and then into gamma-rays.

Torres et al. (2014)