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We present theoretical expectations for non-thermal emission due to the bulk Comptonization at the ultra-relativistic shock breakout. We calculate the transfer of photons emitted from the shocked matter with a Monte Carlo code fully taking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yukari Ohtani , Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

We suggest that non-thermal emission can be produced by multiple scatterings of the photons between the supernova ejecta and pre-shock material in supernova shock breakout. Such bulk-Comptonization process may significantly change the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Eli Waxman , Peter Meszaros

We study the spectra of photospheric emission from highly relativistic gamma-ray burst outflows using a Monte Carlo (MC) code. We consider the Comptonization of photons with a fast cooled synchrotron spectrum in a relativistic jet with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Mukul Bhattacharya , Wenbin Lu , Rodolfo Santana , Pawan Kumar

Thermal X-ray emission which is simultaneous with the prompt gamma-rays has been detected for the first time from a supernova connected with a gamma-ray burst (GRB), namely GRB060218/SN2006aj. It has been interpreted as arising from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Eli Waxman , Peter Meszaros

Supernova remnants are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. In this paper, we explore how the non-thermal emission from young remnants can be used to probe the production of energetic particles at the shock (both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

The X-ray flash 080109, associated with SN 2008D, can be attributed to the shock breakout emission from a normal Type Ib/c supernova. If the observed emission is interpreted as blackbody emission, the temperature and radiated energy are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roger A. Chevalier , Claes Fransson

Modeling subphotospheric shocks in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is challenging due to the various timescales that must be resolved, and the fact that the same radiation dynamically mediates the shocks while forming the observed signal. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Jona Nordin Nobuoka , Filip Alamaa , Felix Ryde , Christoffer Lundman

We describe models of nonthermal photon emission from a homogeneous distribution of relativistic electrons and protons. Contributions from the synchrotron, inverse Compton, nonthermal bremsstrahlung and neutral-pion decay processes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John C. Houck , Glenn E. Allen

We present a simple analytic model for the structure of non-relativistic and relativistic radiation mediated shocks. At shock velocities \beta_s\equiv v_s/c\gtrsim 0.1, the shock transition region is far from thermal equilibrium, since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Boaz Katz , Ran Budnik , Eli Waxman

We present here an efficient numerical scheme for solving the non-relativistic 1D radiation-hydrodynamics equations including inelastic Compton scattering, which is not included in most codes and is crucial for solving problems such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Nir Sapir , Dorri Halbertal

We show that a collisionless shock necessarily forms during the shock breakout of a supernova (SN) surrounded by an optically thick wind. An intense non-thermal flash of <~ MeV gamma rays, hard X-rays and multi-TeV neutrinos is produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-13 Boaz Katz , Nir Sapir , Eli Waxman

It is proposed that the gamma-ray photons that characterize the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts are produced through the Compton drag process, caused by the interaction of a relativistic fireball with a very dense soft photon bath. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Davide Lazzati , Gabriele Ghisellini , Annalisa Celotti , Martin J. Rees

We have extended a simple model of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration (Berezhko and Ellison 1999) to include the injection and acceleration of electrons and the production of photons from bremsstrahlung, synchrotron, inverse-Compton,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald C. Ellison , Evgeny G. Berezhko , Matthew G. Baring

We investigate by two-dimensional axisymmetric relativistic hydrodynamical simulations (1) jet propagations through an envelope of a rapidly rotating and collapsing massive star, which is supposed to be a progenitor of long duration gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Kenta Kiuchi , Shoichi Yamada

(Abridged) We present results from dynamical models of core-collapse supernovae in one spatial dimension, employing a newly-developed Boltzmann neutrino radiation transport algorithm, coupled to Lagrangean hydrodynamics and a consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd A. Thompson , Adam Burrows , Philip A. Pinto

We develop a new theoretical model describing the formation of the radiation spectrum in accretion-powered X-ray pulsars as a result of bulk and thermal Comptonization of photons in the accretion column. The new model extends the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Peter A. Becker , Michael T. Wolff

We develop a new theoretical model for the spectral formation process in accretion-powered X-ray pulsars based on a detailed treatment of the bulk and thermal Comptonization occurring in the accreting, shocked gas. A rigorous eigenfunction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter A. Becker , Michael T. Wolff

The observational signature of supernova remnants (SNRs) is very complex, in terms of both their geometrical shape and their spectral properties, dominated by non-thermal synchrotron and inverse-Compton scattering. We propose a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-14 M. Obergaulinger , J. Ma. Chimeno , P. Mimica , M. A. Aloy , A. Iyudin

The spectrum of radiation emitted following shock breakout from a star's surface with a power-law density profile $\rho \propto x^n$ is investigated. Assuming planar geometry, local Compton equilibrium and bremsstrahlung emission as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-21 Nir Sapir , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

Comptonization is the process in which photon spectrum changes due to multiple Compton scatterings in the electronic plasma. It plays an important role in the spectral formation of astrophysical X-ray and gamma-ray sources. There are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xin-Min Hua
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