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We re-analyze the Chandra ACIS spectrum of the kpc-scale jet in PKS 0637-752 to investigate the possible low energy cutoff in the relativistic electron spectrum producing the non-thermal radiation in the scenario of inverse Compton emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 M. Mueller , D. A. Schwartz

This paper is a brief review of the processes responsible for X-ray emission from radio jets, lobes and hot spots. Possible photons in inverse Compton scattering models include the radio synchrotron radiation itself (i.e. synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew S. Wilson

The evidence for particle acceleration in supernova shells comes from electrons whose synchrotron emission is observed in radio and X-rays. Recent observations by the HESS instrument reveal that supernova remnants also emit TeV gamma-rays;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong

Growing observations of temporal, spectral, and polarization properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the radio emission of the majority of bursts is likely produced inside the magnetosphere of its central engine, likely a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-01 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

The gamma-ray emission in broad-line blazars is generally explained as inverse Compton (IC) radiation of relativistic electrons in the jet scattering optical-UV photons from the Broad Line Region (BLR), the so-called BLR External Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Costamante , S. Cutini , G. Tosti , E. Antolini , A. Tramacere

We revisit the radiation mechanism of relativistic electrons in the stochastic magnetic field and apply it to the high-energy emissions of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We confirm that jitter radiation is a possible explanation for GRB prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 J. Mao , J. Wang

The synchrotron mechanism has the radiation limit of about 160 MeV, and it is not possible to explain the very high energy (VHE) photons that are emitted by high-energy objects. Inverse Compton scattering as a traditional process is applied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique source of highly monochromatic x-ray and gamma radiation. We investigate theoretically the cumulative effects of repeated interactions between the electron beam and a train of powerful laser…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 D. V. Gavrilenko , A. A. Savchenko , M. N. Strikhanov , A. A. Tishchenko

We study the spectrum of high frequency radiation emerging from mildly dissipative photospheres of long-duration gamma-ray burst outflows. Building on the results of recent numerical investigations, we assume that electrons are heated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Davide Lazzati , Mitchell C. Begelman

The Fermi satellite has been reporting the detailed temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in an extremely broad spectral range, 8 keV - 300 GeV, in particular, the unexpected delays of the GeV emission onsets behind the MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

The inverse Compton scattering of ultrarelativistic electrons accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock is believed to be responsible for TeV gamma-ray signal recently reported from the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883. While this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitry Khangulyan , Slavomir Hnatic , Felix Aharonian , Sergey Bogovalov

We consider a model in which the ultra-relativistic jet in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is cold and magnetically accelerated. We assume that the energy flux in the outflowing material is partially thermalized via internal shocks or a reverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ramesh Narayan , Pawan Kumar , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Inverse Compton-pair cascades are initiated when gamma-rays are absorbed on an ambient soft photon field to produce relativistic pairs, which in turn up-scatter the same soft photons to produce more gamma-rays. If the Compton scatterings…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Maria Petropoulou , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Y. Chen , Apostolos Mastichiadis

We present spectra of the inverse-Compton and extragalactic components of the high-energy gamma-radiation based on an analysis of the emission at high galactic latitudes ($\vert$b$\vert$ $\geq$ $30\deg$). We correlate the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrew Chen , Joseph Dwyer , Philip Kaaret

A fraction of gamma-ray bursts exhibit distinct spectral features in their prompt emission below few 10s of keV that exceed simple extrapolations of the low-energy power-law portion of the Band spectral model. This is also true for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue , Peter Meszaros

We describe a general method for modeling gamma-ray burst prompt emission. We find that for the burst to be produced via the synchrotron process unphysical conditions are required -- the distance of the source from the center of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawan Kumar , Erin McMahon , UT Austin

Detection of hard X-ray spectrum (spectral index < 2) from the kilo-parsec scale jet of active galactic nuclei cannot be accounted to the synchrotron emission mechanism from the electron distribution responsible for the radio/optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Amal A. Rahman , S. Sahayanathan , Malik Zahoor , P. A Subha

The most common progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are massive stars with strong stellar winds. We show that the GRB blast wave in the wind should emit a bright GeV flash. It is produced by inverse Compton cooling of the thermal plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Romain Hascoet , Indrek Vurm

In this paper we study formation broad band energy spectra of electrons due to synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton (IC) scattering. The effect of transition of IC cooling from the Thomson regime to the Klein-Nishina regime can be very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Khangulyan , F. Aharonian

MeV seed photons produced in shocks in a variable ultra-relativistic outflow gain energy by the Fermi mechanism, because the photons Compton scatter off relativistically colliding shells. The Fermi-modified high-energy photon spectrum has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei Gruzinov , Peter Meszaros