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 in the magnetic field of . 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}
}
Comments
accepted by ApJL, comments are welcome