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Large-scale coherent magnetic fields observed in the nearby galaxies are thought to originate by a mean-field dynamo. This is governed via the turbulent electromotive force (EMF, $\overline{\mathcal{E}} $) generated by the helical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Abhijit B. Bendre , Detlef Elstner , Oliver Gressel

Coherent curvature radiation as the radiation mechanism for fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been discussed since FRBs were discovered. We study the spectral and polarization properties of repeating FRBs within the framework of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Chen-Hui Niu , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

Turbulence in highly magnetized plasma can be relativistic and induce an electric field comparable to the background magnetic field. Such a strong electric field can affect the emission process of non-thermal electrons. As the first step…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

The propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent interstellar magnetic fields is typically described as a spatial diffusion process. This formalism predicts only a small deviation from an isotropic CR distribution in the form of a dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Markus Ahlers

We show that an alpha effect is driven by the cosmic ray Bell instability exciting left-right asymmetric turbulence. Alfven waves of a preferred polarization have maximally helical motion, because the transverse motion of each mode is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-21 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin , Axel Brandenburg , David Eichler

The dynamics of relativistically moving blobs ejected out of a central AGN, are considered. It is assumed that the collision between two blobs are completely inelastic, such that the bulk kinetic energy lost in the collision is used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sahayanathan , R. Misra

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Nonlinear dynamics creates vortical currents when the tight-coupling approximation between photons and baryons breaks down around the time of recombination. This generates a magnetic field at second order in cosmological perturbations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 Elisa Fenu , Cyril Pitrou , Roy Maartens

The analytical theory of diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at parallel stationary shock waves with magnetostatic turbulence is generalized to arbitrary shock speeds $V_s=\beta_1c$, including in particular relativistic speeds. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reinhard Schlickeiser

We consider a stochastic differential equation for a charged particle in a stochastic magnetic field, known as A-Langevin equation. The solution of the equation is found, and the Lagrange velocity correlation function is calculated in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Lesnik , S. Gordienko , M. Neuer , K. -H. Spatschek

We consider the effect of a random magnetic field in the convective zone of the Sun on resonant neutrino spin-flavour oscillations. The expected signals in the different experiments (SK, GALLEX-SAGE,Homestake) are obtained as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 E. Torrente-Lujan

We combine the GMRT low frequency radio observations of SN 1993J with the VLA high frequency radio data to get a near simultaneous spectrum around day 3200 since explosion. The low frequency measurements of the supernova determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Poonam Chandra , Alak Ray , Sanjay Bhatnagar

The origin of magnetic fields that permeate the blast waves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a long-standing problem. The present paper argues that in four GRBs revealing extended emission at >100 MeV, with follow-up in the radio, optical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Lemoine , Zhuo Li , Xiang-Yu Wang

In inhomogeneous optically thick synchrotron sources a substantial part of the electron population at low energies can be hidden by self-absorption and overpowered by high energy electrons in optically thin emission. These invisible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Beckert , Heino Falcke

A single-mode microcavity with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring, which is pierced by a magnetic flux and subjected to a lateral electric field, is studied theoretically. It is shown that external electric and magnetic fields provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. M. Alexeev , I. A. Shelykh , M. E. Portnoi

We show that a dispersion of monodomain ferromagnetic particles in a solid phase exhibits stochastic resonance when a driven linearly polarized magnetic field is applied. By using an adiabatic approach, we calculate the power spectrum, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Perez-Madrid , J. M. Rubi

A theory of recently discovered anomalous low-field magnetoresistance is developed for the system of two-dimensional electrons scattered by hard disks of radius $a,$ randomly distributed with concentration $n.$ For small magnetic fields the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vadim V. Cheianov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

The paradigm of stochastic resonance (SR)---the idea that signal detection and transmission may benefit from noise---has met with great interest in both physics and the neurosciences. We investigate here the consequences of reducing the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hans E. Plesser , Theo Geisel

We show that technique of Dyson equation in wave multiple scattering by spatially disordered discrete medium statistical theory leads directly to a dielectric permittivity tensor, which is characterized by spatial dispersion and obeys the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-27 Yu. N. Barabanenkov , M. Yu. Barabanenkov , S. A. Nikitov

Emission of light by a single electron moving on a curved trajectory (synchrotron radiation) is one of the most well-known fundamental radiation phenomena. However experimental situations are more complex as they involve many electrons,…