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Knot in Cen A: Stochastic Magnetic Field for Diffusive Synchrotron Radiation?

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The emission of relativistic electrons moving in the random and small-scale magnetic field is presented by diffusive synchrotron radiation (DSR). In this Letter, we revisit the perturbative treatment of DSR. We propose that random and small-scale magnetic field might be generated by the turbulence. As an example, multi-band radiation of the knot in Cen A comes from the electrons with energy γe103104\gamma_e\sim 10^3-10^4 in the magnetic field of 103G10^{-3}G. The multi-band spectrum of DSR is well determined by the feature of stochastic magnetic field. These results put strong constraint to the models of particle acceleration.

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@article{arxiv.0709.2210,
  title  = {Knot in Cen A: Stochastic Magnetic Field for Diffusive Synchrotron Radiation?},
  author = {Jirong Mao and Jiancheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2210},
  year   = {2009}
}

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accepted by ApJL, comments are welcome