A new discovery by scientists about the origin of the high-energy ejaculatory process has opened up a new link in the problem of explaining the action of neutron stars.
The asteroid system consists of neutron stars that can accelerate particles to very high energies, hundreds of times the most powerful accelerator on Earth. Scientists still do not understand exactly how such systems work, and where the molecules are accelerated.
A group of researchers from the United Kingdom and Italy, led by Professor Tony Dean of the University of Southampton, detected the phenomenon of polarizing gamma ray emission from the Crab Nebula neighborhood - one of the spectacle The most powerful impression in the universe. Using spectroscopy to collect images and measuring the polarity - or arrangement - of high-energy radiation waves in the gamma-ray range, the scientists determined that those energetic photon molecules are very close to the hidden planet.
Crab Nebula is the result of an observable supernova explosion from Earth on June 4, 1054. The explosion left a rotating crystal or a rotating neutron star with nebulae of radiation particles. surround it.
The neutron star carrying the mass of the Sun compresses into a volume with a radius of 10km, rotating very rapidly - about 30 times per second - thus creating electromagnetic fields and accelerating molecules. A collimated ray, aligned with the rotating axis of the crystal and a toroidal radiation around the crystal, was also observed. Crab accelerates electrons, and possibly other particles, to huge energies, along collimated rays, around toroidal radiation, where they can be detected in the gamma ray region.
Looking at the central region of the neutron star with the gamma-ray telescope on the space ship INTEGRAL revolving around the European Space Agency's Earth, scientists have made a thorough study of high-energy radiation to Evaluate their polarity. They deduced that most gamma rays originated directly from collimated rays.
The scientists analyzed data from more than 600 Crab observations of INTEGRAL's spectrometer to assess the polarization of gamma rays and compared them with results from modern computer models.
The results show polarization with an electric vector aligned with the neutron star's rotating axis, proving that a significant portion of the high-energy electrons are responsible for polarized photons produced in an orderly structure. High close to the hidden planet.
Professor Tony Dean of the University of Physics and Astronomy remarked: 'The special arrangement of the electric vector with the rotating axis of the crystal, as well as with its uniformity for the optical polarization angle, shows both vector parameters originate from the same location close to the neutron star. This finding has a clear meaning in many ways for Crab's large energy acceleration regions. '
The above results may also have important implications for basic physics. Some theories of quantum gravity predicted that at very short distances, a certain direction in space could be chosen, breaking Lorentz invariant theory. The consequence of this phenomenon is that the vector polarization of light will gradually rotate as it propagates through space. Crab Nebula has a famous spinning axis. The first measurements of Gama polarization showed that Gamma rays are aligned with the rotating axis, not spinning away from the shaft.