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We self-consistently estimate the outflow rate from the accretion rates of an accretion disk around a black hole in which both the Keplerian and the sub-Keplerian matter flows simultaneously. While Keplerian matter supplies soft-photons,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Santabrata Das , Indranil Chattopadhyay , A. Nandi , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We examine the intrinsic energy dissipation steps in electrically biased graphene channels. By combining in-situ measurements of the spontaneous optical emission with a Raman spectroscopy study of the graphene sample under conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Stéphane Berciaud , Melinda Y. Han , Louis E. Brus , Philip Kim , Tony F. Heinz

We develop a model of particle energization and emission from strongly turbulent black-hole coronae. Our local model is based on a set of 2D radiative particle-in-cell simulations with an electron-ion plasma composition, injection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Daniel Groselj , Alexander Philippov , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Richard Mushotzky

Compton scattering of polarized radiation in a strong magnetic field is considered. The recipe for calculation of the scattering matrix elements, the differential and total cross sections based on quantum electrodynamic (QED) second order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-11 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Dmitrij I. Nagirner , Juri Poutanen

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Context: Observations of X-Ray sources harbouring a black hole and an accretion disc show the presence of at least two spectral components. One component is black-body radiation from an optically thick standard accretion disc. The other is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mayer

Selected topics dealing with X-ray/soft gamma-ray emission from accreting black-hole sources are reviewed. The shape of soft gamma-ray spectra of Seyferts observed by OSSE can be well modelled by thermal Comptonization. A very strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej A. Zdziarski

A theoretical possibility to determine the proton Compton scattering cross section from the reaction $ep\rightarrow ep\gamma$ is studied in the kinematics with a small transversal momentum transfer in the electron leg. With the exception of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 A. I. Lvov , V. A. Petrunkin , S. G. Popov , B. B. Wojtsekhowski

The current status of understanding of the X-ray emission from Seyfert galaxies involves Comptonization of soft photons by hot subrelativistic electrons. After briefly reviewing the early theoretical basis for the presence of hot optically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Maraschi , Francesco Haardt

We present results of a study of non-thermal, time-dependent particle injection in a corona around an accreting black hole. We model the spectral energy distribution of high-energy flares in this scenario. We consider particle interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Gustavo E. Romero , Florencia L. Vieyro

We present the properties of accretion disk corona (ADC) models, where the radiation field, the temperature, and the total opacity of the corona are determined self-consistently. We use a non-linear Monte Carlo code to perform the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James B. Dove , Jorn Wilms , Mitchell C. Begelman

We examine the spatial distribution of electrons generated by a fixed energy point source in uniform, parallel electric and magnetic fields. This problem is simple enough to permit analytic quantum and semiclassical solution, and it harbors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Bracher , Tobias Kramer , John B. Delos

We study the polarization properties of the jitter and synchrotron radiation produced by electrons in highly turbulent anisotropic magnetic fields. The net polarization is provided by the geometry of the magnetic field the directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 A. Yu. Prosekin , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

The transport of the energy contained in electrons, both thermal and suprathermal, in solar flares plays a key role in our understanding of many aspects of the flare phenomenon, from the spatial distribution of hard X-ray emission to global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

This paper aims to study the polarization of hard X-ray (HXR) sources in the solar atmosphere, including Compton backscattering of photons in the photosphere (the albedo effect) and the spatial distribution of polarization across the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar

To date, nearly all multi-wavelength modeling of long-duration gamma-ray bursts has ignored synchrotron radiation from the significant population of electrons expected to pass the shock without acceleration into a power-law distribution. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-27 Sean M. Ressler , Tanmoy Laskar

We investigated the photoexcited carrier dynamics in Si by using optical pump and terahertz probe spectroscopy in an energy range between 2 meV and 25 meV. The formation dynamics of excitons from unbound e-h pairs was studied through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Takeshi Suzuki , Ryo Shimano

We present the results of self-consistent models of Compton-heated accretion disk coronae. The models are calculated using a new method for computing monochromatic radiative transfer in two-dimensions. The method splits the radiation into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Stephen D. Murray , John I. Castor , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

In this work, we investigate synchrotron emission and the observational signatures of anisotropic non-thermal electrons during magnetic-flux eruptions in a magnetically arrested disk, using 3D GRMHD simulations. Non-thermal electrons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Fan Zhou , Jiewei Huang , Yuehang Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yehui Hou , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

The emission from galactic black holes and Seyfert galaxies is generally understood in term of two-phase models (Haardt and Maraschi 1991, 1993). Such models postulate that a hot plasma coexists with relatively colder material in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Malzac , Anne-Marie Dumont , Martine Mouchet