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We study the structure and evolution of the accreting plasma in gamma ray burst central engines. The models are based on the general relativistic MHD simulations. The nuclear equation of state adequate for dense and degenerate plasma, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-07 Agnieszka Janiuk , Katarzyna Wojczuk , Konstantinos Sapountzis

I present a study of the high-energy gamma-ray properties of the flat spectrum radio quasar, PKS 1510-089, based on 3.75 years of observations with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) detector on-board the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Anthony M. Brown

Recently, a fast radio burst (FRB)-like event is found to be associated with a Galactic magnetar, SGR 1935+2154, accompanied by an X-ray burst. We find this radio burst challenges the typical emission mechanisms involving magnetars, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-27 Jie-Shuang Wang

Blazars exhibit flares across the electromagnetic spectrum. Many $\gamma$-ray flares are highly correlated with flares detected at optical wavelengths; however, a small subset appears to occur in isolation, with little or no variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas R. MacDonald , Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Manasvita Joshi

A detailed study of the BL Lacertae PKS 0903-57 has been done for the first time with 12 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. We have identified two bright gamma-ray flares in 2018 and 2020. Many sub-structures were observed during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-02 Sandeep Kumar Mondal , Raj Prince , Nayantara Gupta , Avik Kumar Das

The time dependent synchrotron emission from relativistic jets, and the relation between the synchrotron and ERC emission is considered within the framework of the radiative front model. The timescale and profile of the optically thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amir Levinson

To constrain the giant pulse (GP) emission mechanism and test the model of Lyutikov (2007) of GP emission, we are carrying out a campaign of simultaneous observations of the Crab pulsar between gamma-rays (Fermi) and radio wavelengths. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-08 A. V. Bilous , V. I. Kondratiev , M. A. McLaughlin , M. Mickaliger , D. R. Lorimer , S. M. Ransom , M. Lyutikov , B. Stappers , G. I. Langston

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Theodora Papavasileiou , Odysseas Kosmas , Ioannis Sinatkas

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances, whose underlying engine is not identified. Among a sub-population that emit repeated radio bursts, a handful were associated with a persistent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Xian Zhang , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan , Yi Xing , Bing Zhang

We present a detailed study of the X-ray, optical and radio emission from the jet, lobes and core of the quasar PKS 2101-490 as revealed by new Chandra, HST and ATCA images. We extract the radio to X-ray spectral energy distributions from…

We have observed in the mid-infrared (4-18 micron) the counterpart of the compact object GRS 1915+105, and the western jet of SS433. The images were carried out with the ISOCAM infrared camera on board of the Infrared Space Observatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Fuchs , I. F. Mirabel , R. N. Ogley

Radio observations discovered large scale non thermal sources in the central Mpc regions of dynamically disturbed galaxy clusters (radio halos). The morphological and spectral properties of these sources suggest that the emitting electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Brunetti , A. Lazarian

Parameters of a dense 10^13-10^14cm^-3) multicomponent gas-metal plasma in the pulsed reflex discharge with a moderate power (W \leq 10 MW) have been studied. The dynamics of the plasma density in time, the mass-element composition of the…

Three giant flares have been detected so far from soft gamma-ray repeaters, each characterized by an initial short hard spike and a pulsating tail. The observed pulsating tails are characterized by a duration of $\sim100\,\rm{s}$, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

This work builds upon previous studies of nonlinear dynamics in low-pressure capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges, focusing on the electron power absorption mechanism in discharges with various geometric asymmetries. We present a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Katharina Noesges , Thomas Mussenbrock

Flares in the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) share more characteristics with the prompt emission than the afterglow, such as pulse profile and contained fluence. As a result, they are believed to originate from late-time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Sarah L. Gibson , Graham A. Wynn , Benjamin P. Gompertz , Paul T. O'Brien

We propose a novel idea for the coherent intense millisecond radio emission of cosmic fast radio bursts (FRBs), which have recently been identified with flares from a magnetar. Motivated by the conventional paradigm of Type III solar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Edison Liang

Microquasars are compact binary systems hosting collimated relativistic jets. They have long been proposed as cosmic-ray accelerators, probed via the gamma-ray emission produced by relativistic particles. However, the observational evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 G. Martí-Devesa , L. Olivera-Nieto

It has been suggested that the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts consists of several components giving rise to the observed spectral shape. Here we examine a sample of the 8 brightest, single pulsed {\it Fermi} bursts whose spectra are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 S. Iyyani , F. Ryde , J. M. Burgess , A. Pe'er , D. B\' egué

We present the results of 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations that explore relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma with strong synchrotron cooling and a small mass fraction of non-radiating ions. Our results demonstrate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Alexander Chernoglazov , Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander A. Philippov