超新星孕育了黑洞

 黑洞一直被看成是神秘而奇异的天体．虽然有越来越多的观测证据证明它们的存在,但有关这些天体形成的原因,仍存有许多问题．一种可能的方案是,一个大质量恒星（比太阳质量大２５倍）燃尽了核燃料并在它的很大的引力质量下塌缩,形成了黑洞．另一种可能的方案是一个更为复杂的模型,假设一个大质量恒星首先爆炸,留下了一个直径小于２０千米、密度极高的中子星．这一超新星爆发所摔出的一些物质又落回到新生的中子星上,最后发生塌缩而形成黑洞．     

玫瑰眼（The Rosette Eye）——大质量恒星周围电离氢区前期形成及演化重要过渡阶段的发现

一个由中英德美多国天文学家组成的工作小组近期在距离太阳系5000光年的玫瑰巨分子云核心大质量星形成区域发现了一个处于早期演化阶段的罕见的年轻大质量恒星系统。据估算,中心星体的质量大约为20个太阳质量。观测表明,该大质量星在其形成的吸积塌缩过程中产生的强大紫外辐射正以大张角电离星风的形式从恒星的两极喷射而出,在近红外宽带和分子氢发射线窄带成像中表现为一个沙漏状的双极电离氢区。     

自动测定星系形态新方法

<正>星系的形态结构与其形成历史密切相关。概括地说,漩涡星系的盘结构是经吸积气体形成恒星由内而外增长形成;漩涡星系的并合会瓦解盘,导致形态不规则,并最终形成椭球星系。星系并合在星系质量增长、形态重塑、星暴激发、中心黑洞吸积等方面扮演非常重要的角色,是驱动星系形成和演化的关键物理机制之一。普查宇宙不同阶段星系的形态特征和并合事件发生频率,及如何随时间演化,是理解星系结构起源的关键,也是当前河外天文学的核心研究目标之一。随着天文大数据时代的来临,大规模多色深度图像巡天使得全面细致研究近邻和遥远宇宙中各类星系的形态结构成为可能。     

年轻恒星形成过程的分子谱线诊断

恒星是宇宙的基本天体,理解恒星的起源和早期演化是天体物理最有举的课题之一,目前了解的恒星形成的一个基本图象是,恒星是由一个足够大质量的星际分子气体云在其其自引力作用下塌缩而形成。在早期塌缩过程中形成一颗原恒星（胚胎）,并且伴随该原恒星的吸积盘,原恒星吸积星际介质中的分子物质,通过吸积盘转移到原恒星表面,原恒星的质量随着增大。在吸积过程中也同时伴随物质向外的剧烈喷发,由于盘的存在,这种喷发通常沿垂直于盘的方向进行,出现双极的空间分布。在天文观测上,一种典型的表现是分子气体的外向流,观测表现为从原恒星双极的红蓝移气体运动^[1]。由于恒星形成了星际分子中,因此,对星际分子的谱线探测是研究恒星形成的强有力手段,现在已经发现和证认的星际分子总数有一百多种,其中丰富度最高的气体是H2。在所有的星际分子中,丰度仅次于H2的CO分子的转动跃迁谱易激发,相对于星际介质的不透明度小,观测上易于实现,因此,CO分子就成为探索原恒星形成的有力探针,在毫米波段出现的J＝1－0和J＝2－1跃迁变线以及CO同位素的谱线是最常使用的观测探针,八十年代以来又陆续发现了环形分子SiC2,C3H,C3H2及含磷分子PN和CN等,给宇宙中有机世界的探测提供了丰富的线索。我们对恒形成区内存在的低温原恒星天体进行毫米 波射电谱线观测,测量该原恒星周围分子气体的分布,其物理化学参数,以及速度场分布。根据这些测量结果并运用成熟的数量方法,分析正在发生的物理化学过程,特别是原恒星质量外流的过程。根据观测分析结果得出所观测天体的形成和演化状况。     

黑洞、暗物质、反物质及宇宙的未来

一、黑洞 现在已有越来越多的证据证实黑洞的存在,那么黑洞是怎么产生的呢？一是宇宙形成时就产生了一些黑洞,再就是恒星的坍缩产物中有一种是黑洞．大恒星的坍缩产物就是黑洞．现在间接观测和推断的结论是：不仅各大星系中都有黑洞,而且在某些星系中心也都有一个大黑洞． 二、暗物质 所谓暗物质就是不能用光学方法直接探测到的物质．理论上认为,暗物质本身既不发光,又不与光发生作用（比如,它不反射光）,只存在万有引力．按现有的天体物理理论计算暗物质占整个宇宙质量的９０％．而我们能观测到的各星系质量仅占整个宇宙质量的１０…     

寻找黑洞

恒星在死亡时将发生什么变化？这是天文学上一个非常自然的问题．自从３０年代以来，已经提出了各种理论来回答这一问题。这些理论预言有超新星、白矮星、中子星和黑洞的存在，前两个已是现在比较熟悉的天体了．１９６８年发现了脉冲星，它被证认为比寻常恒星致密得多、引力场强得多的自转中子星．可是大质量恒星在中子星状态也不可能是稳定的，它的末期演化到什么状态？有没有比中子星更致密、引力场更强的天体存在？这些问题都涉及到这些预言中最奇特、最不易理解的黑洞概念． 什么是黑洞呢？简单地说，黑洞就是一个其逃逸速度超过光速的…     

宇宙年龄问题

自适应光学技术的运用和空间望远镜修复的成功使人们可以观测到更遥远星系中的造父变星，并由此准确地定出这些星系离我们的距离、从这些距离可以推知哈勃常数Ｈ的值，从而估计出宇宙年龄。观测的初步结果表明，由此测得的宇宙年龄比由恒星的观测和理论得到的最老恒星年龄还低。这使得长期以来未获解决的宇宙年龄问题的矛盾变得更加尖锐。这一矛盾提示我们，在天体物理研究中，我们对一些非常重要的问题可能仍缺乏充分的了解．     

天体物理学讲座第二讲 活动星系核物理

星系的活动是星系核心大质量黑洞吸积周围的气体释放巨大的辐射功率的过程,它是强引力场物理,高能物理和辐射流体物理的天然实验室,文章介绍了活动星系核中黑洞吸积,发射线形成和外流的观测事实和基本物理过程等,指出了现有理论存在的一些问题。     

双中子星的并合及其引力波和电磁信号

2017年,轰动世界的引力波事件GW170817被确认来自于双中子星的并合。这是人类历史上首次探测到这种极端、剧烈的天体物理事件。双中子星是两个致密天体——中子星组成的系统,由双恒星系统经历漫长演化后形成。文章将从双中子星并合前、并合过程中与并合后全面地描述这种剧烈的天文现象,走进一段神奇而迤逦的旅程。未来随着引力波观测设备的升级,有望再次看到来自宇宙深处的引力波以及伴随的丰富多彩的电磁信号。     

γ射线暴的最新研究进展:火球模型、余辉及前身星

γ射线暴（称简γ暴）的研究在最近几年里有了巨大的突破。观测上，人们发现了γ暴的低能余辉以及与γ射线发同时的光学爆发，还发现了它位于宇学距离的寄主星系。越来越多的观测证据还表明长时标γ暴与恒星形成区、甚至可能与超新星成协。在γ暴的相对论火球模型框架下，人们对γ暴以及余辉的产生机制的认识也有了进展。进而人们对γ暴的前身星以及环境效应等有了新的认识。本文旨在对这些进展和认识给一个扼要的评述。     

The astrophysical environment of the solar birthplace

Our Sun, like all stars, formed within a cold molecular cloud. Astronomical observations and theory provide considerable detail into this process. Yet cosmochemical observations of short-lived radionuclides in primitive meteorites, in particular ⁶⁰Fe, provide unequivocal evidence that the early solar system inherited fresh nucleosynthetic material from the core of a hot, massive star, almost certainly ejected in a supernova explosion. I give a short introduction to the fields of star formation and meteoritics and discuss how the reconciliation of their disparate clues to our origin places strong constraints on the environment of the solar birthplace. Direct injection of supernova ejecta into a protoplanetary disc or a dense molecular core is unlikely since their small sizes require placement unusually close to the massive star. Lower density molecular cloud clumps can capture more ejecta but the radionuclides decay during the slow gravitational collapse. The most likely scenario is on the largest scales via the formation of enriched molecular clouds at the intersection of colliding supernova bubbles in spiral arms.     

Maximum stellar iron core mass

An analytical method of estimating the mass of a stellar iron core, just prior to core collapse, is described in this paper. The method employed depends, in part, upon an estimate of the true relativistic mass increase experienced by electrons within a highly compressed iron core, just prior to core collapse, and is significantly different from a more typical Chandrasekhar mass limit approach. This technique produced a maximum stellar iron core mass value of 269 × 10³⁰ kg (1.35 solar masses). This mass value is very near to the typical mass values found for neutron stars in a recent survey of actual neutron star masses. Although slightly lower and higher neutron star masses may also be found, lower mass neutron stars are believed to be formed as a result of enhanced iron core compression due to the weight of non-ferrous matter overlying the iron cores within large stars. And, higher mass neutron stars are likely to be formed as a result of fallback or accretion of additional matter after an initial collapse event involving an iron core having a mass no greater than 2.69 × 10³⁰ kg     

The formation of stars

We review the process of star formation, detailing the theories underlying the stability of molecular clouds and their collapse to protostars, and discussing the empirical evidence and models which inform them. We give emphasis to the role that the magnetic field plays in influencing the stability of molecular clouds and hence the star formation rate. The end result of star formation is a mass function which appears constant within our Galaxy. A relative abundance of low mass stars is observed over high mass stars and most of the stars that do form are found to exist as members of a binary system. The origin of binarity is reviewed as is the discovery, formation and observations of some of the lowest mass stars known, the brown dwarfs.     

Future solar systems

Widely regarded as pathological variable stars – with erratic photometric and spectroscopic behavior of unknown physical origin – 20 years ago, T Tauri stars (TTSs) turned out in the last decade to be promising laboratories for observing the formation of solar systems such as ours. This is because circumstellar, presumably protoplanetary disks were found to surround a large fraction of them. While evidence for disks was primarily indirect until 1995, recent high resolution imaging confirmed earlier claims that the infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) excesses seen in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of these stars were due to disk emission. The activity displayed by young stellar objects at all wavelengths is due to the interaction between the circumstellar disk and the magnetized star and to non-stationary accretion/ejection phenomena. In this review, we briefly summarize properties of these young solar-type stars and describe their circumstellar disks in some detail, focusing on current optical, infrared and millimeter high angular resolution observations that now allow us to resolve the disks.     

Chemical Evolution of the Universe and its Consequences for Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Gravitational waves (GW) emitted by merging black holes (BH) and neutron stars are now routinely detected. Those are the afterlives of massive stars that formed all across the Universe—at different cosmic times and with different metallicities. Birth metallicity plays an important role in the evolution of massive stars. Consequently, the population properties of mergers are sensitive to the metallicity dependent cosmic star formation history (f_SFR(Z,z)). In particular, within the isolated formation scenarios (the focus of this paper), a strong low metallicity preference of the formation of BH mergers is found. The origin of this dependence and its consequences are discussed. Most importantly, uncertainty in the f_SFR(Z,z) (substantial even at low redshifts) cannot be ignored in the models. This poses a challenge for the interpretation of the observed GW source population properties. Possible improvements and the role of future GW detectors are considered. Recent efforts to determine f_SFR(Z,z) and the factors that dominate its uncertainty are summarized. Many of those factors stem from the uncertain properties of faint and distant galaxies. The fact that they leave imprint on the redshift-dependent properties of mergers makes GW a promising (and complementary to electromagnetic observations) tool to study galaxy chemical evolution.     

Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars Within Modified Quark-Meson Coupling Model

K^- condensation and quark deconfinement phase transitions in neutron stars are investigated. We use the modified quark-meson coupling model for hadronic phase and the MIT bag model for quark phase. With the equation of state (EOS) solved self-consistently, we discuss the properties of neutron stars. We find that the EOS of pure hadron matter with condensed K^- phase should be ruled out by the redshift for star EXO0748-676, while EOS containing unpaired quark matter phase with B^1/4 being about 180 MeV could be consistent with both this observation and the best measured mass of star PSR 1913+16. But if the recent inferred massive star among Terzan 5 with M>1.68M_๏ is confirmed, all the present EOSes with condensed phase and deconfined phase would be ruled out.     

包含暗物质的强子夸克混合星

研究了含有暗物质的夸克核心混合星的观测属性。用相对论平均场理论和有效质量口袋模型分别描述夸克核心的混合星物质内强子相和夸克相,用Gibbs相平衡条件描述强子-夸克混合相,研究了由于包含强、弱相互作用的费米子暗物质对混合星质量、半径、引力红移、自转频率和转动惯量等整体观测属性的影响。结果表明,在强、弱相互作用下,暗物质粒子质量大于等于0.5 GeV时暗物质会使混合星的状态方程比无暗物质时有一定软化,相应的混合星最大质量减少。当调节暗物质粒子质量研究表明,随着暗物质粒子质量的增大,夸克核心的混合星物质的状态方程变软,混合星的质量、半径变小,并且引力红移、自转频率和转动惯量等整体观测属性也明显依赖于暗物质粒子的质量。当暗物质粒子质量0.1 GeV时,包含强、弱作用暗物质的混合星质量达到2.0 M_⊙和2.8 M_⊙（其中M_⊙为太阳质量）,说明大质量脉冲星PSR J1859-0131和J1931-01可能是包含小质量暗粒子暗物质的强子夸克的混合星。整体观测属性的计算结果均在中子星的天文观察数据范围内,也说明强子夸克的混合星内可能包含暗物质。The observational properties of quark core hybrid star contain dark matter are studied. The influences of containing of strongly or weakly interacting dark matter to global observational features of hybrid stars, mass, radius, gravitational red-shift, rotational period and moment of inertia are studied by using relativistic mean field theory to describe hadron phase, effective mass bag model to quark phase, and Gibbs phase equilibrium conditions to hadron-quark mixed phase respectively. Our results indicate that, both in the strong and weak interacting case, the equation of state for hybrid star matter contain dark matter become softer than that of without dark matter while the mass of dark matter particles larger than 0.5 GeV, which leads to the decrease of the mass and corresponding radius of hybrid star. With the increase of the dark matter particle mass, the equation of state for hybrid star matter become softer, this cause the decrease of the mass and radius of hybrid star obviously. The gravitational red-shift and the rotational period, obviously increase of the moment of inertia of the hybrid stars are influenced by the dark matter particle mass. When the dark matter particle mass is equal to 0.1 GeV, the masses of the star with strong and weak interacting dark matter reach to 2.0 M_⊙ and 2.8 M_⊙(M_⊙ is the solar mass), this result indicates that the giant mass PSR, J1859-0131 and J1931-01, can be a hadron-quark hybrid star and containing dark matter with small dark particle mass. The computational results of all above global observational features of hybrid stars are in the range of astronomical observation data, these also indicate that hybrid star with quark core may contains dark matter.     

超子耦合参数对热前中子星物质的影响

在相对论平均场理论框架内,利用Λ超子的结合能和中子星质量的观测数据得到超子标量介子耦合参数χσ的范围是0.33—0.77。在这个范围内, 研究了χσ取不同值时, 包含核子, Λ和Ξ超子的热前中子星（固定单个重子熵s=1）的性质。结果表明, 如果超子耦合参数变大, 前中子星核心温度变高, 中微子丰度变低, 前中子星的亚稳态质量范围变小。如果χσ超过了0.75, 前中子星不可能演变成黑洞。联系SN1987A讨论了这一结果的意义。In the framework of the relativistic mean field theory(RMFT), protoneutron stars with hyperons are studied. To be compatible with neutron star masses, the hyperon scalar coupling χσ should lie in the range of 0.33—0.77. As the hyperon scalar coupling increases, in protoneutron star matter, the core temperature increases whereas the abundance of neutrinos decreases. The metastable mass range of protoneutron stars narrows as the temperature increases. It is found that a protoneutron star cannot subside into a low mass black hole when χσ>0.75. Furthermore, the case of SN1987A is discussed.     

Role of hyperons and pions in neutron stars and supernova

Neutron stars are studied in the framework of nuclear relativistic field theory. Hyperons and pions significantly soften the equation of state of neutron star matter at moderate and high density. We conjecture that they are responsible for the softening that is found to be crucial to the bounce scenario in supernova calculations. Hyperons reduce the limiting mass of neutron stars predicted by theory by one half solar mass or more, which is a large effect compared to the range in which theories of matter predict this limit to fall.     

Strange quark star and the parameter space of the quasi-particle model

The properties of strange quark stars are studied within the quasi-particle model. Taking into account chemical equilibrium and charge neutrality, the equation of state(EOS) of(2+ 1)-flavor quark matter is obtained. We illustrate the parameter spaces with constraints from two aspects: one is based on the astronomical results of PSR J0740+ 6620 and GW 170 817,and the other is based on the constraints proposed from the theoretical study of a compact star that the EOS must ensure the tidal deformability Λ_(1.4)=190_(-120)~(+390) and support a maximum mass above 1.97M_⊙. It is found that neither type of constraints can restrict the parameter space of the quasi-particle model in a reliable region and thus we conclude that the low mass compact star cannot be a strange quark star.