On the Periodic Change of the Luminosity of the Cosmic Sources with an Active Medium

  • Vitaly V. Kostenko V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Volodymyr M. Kuklin V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0310-1582
  • Eugen V. Poklonskiy V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5682-6694
Keywords: pulse generation of induced radiation, convective source of population inversion, periodic change in the luminosity

Abstract

The presence of an internal layer with an active medium in a hot radiation source is considered, which can be described by a quantum two-level system located near equilibrium. The population of the upper and lower levels is approximately equal. It is shown that during convection from deeper hot layers, which supports the inversion of the populations of the active system, generation of induced radiation pulses is possible, the intensity of which is comparable to or greater than the intensity of the background spontaneous radiation of the source. With a sufficient thickness of the surface layers due to the effects of radiation scattering in them, the emission spectrum of a completely black body may well form there. Pulse generation near a previously detected new threshold of induced radiation can lead to a periodic change in the radiation intensity of the source as a whole. This threshold is determined by the equality of the squared population inversion to the total number of states. The generation of pulses of induced radiation is considered both in Einstein's representation, on the basis of balanced equations, and using a semiclassical description for small values of population inversion and for low levels of electric field intensity, when the Rabi frequency is less than the line width. The description of the induced radiation process is reduced to a one-parameter system of equations. Periodic solutions are represented by closed trajectories on the phase plane (relative density of quanta, relative density of population inversion). A similar layer with an active medium, which can be described by a quantum two-level system located near equilibrium, can exist in stars and is most likely localized in the photosphere. If there is significant convection in the star’s atmosphere, conditions can be realized for generating pulses of induced radiation. It turns out that one can see the similarity of the obtained solutions with known observations of changes in the luminosity of Cepheid stars (Cepheus delta and the North Star).

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2020-04-03
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Kostenko, V. V., Kuklin, V. M., & Poklonskiy, E. V. (2020). On the Periodic Change of the Luminosity of the Cosmic Sources with an Active Medium. East European Journal of Physics, (2), 48-56. https://doi.org/10.26565/2312-4334-2020-2-03