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The production of both gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) is widely associated with the merger of compact objects. Several studies have modelled the evolution of the electromagnetic emission using the synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 N. Fraija , D. Lopez-Camara , A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , P. Veres , S. Dichiara

The synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models and External Compton (EC) models of AGN jets with continually longitudinal and transverse bulk velocity structures are constructed. The observed spectra show complex and interesting patterns in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Jianping Yang , Jiancheng Wang , Benzhong Dai , Xiaoyan Gao

The mass-loss rates from single massive stars are high enough to form radio photospheres at large distances from the stellar surface where the wind is optically thick to (thermal) free-free opacity. Here we calculate the far-infrared,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Christiana Erba , Richard Ignace

Very long baseline interferometry observations reveal that relativistic jets like the one in M87 have a limb-brightened, double-edged structure. Analytic and numerical models struggle to reproduce this limb-brightening. We propose a model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-21 Yuh Tsunetoe , Dominic W. Pesce , Ramesh Narayan , Andrew Chael , Zachary Gelles , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

This paper explores the effects of strong magnetic fields on the Compton scattering of relativistic electrons. Recent studies of upscattering and energy loss by relativistic electrons that have used the non-relativistic, magnetic Thomson…

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of TeV blazars has a double-humped shape that is usually interpreted as Synchrotron Self Compton (SSC) model. The one zone SSC model is used broadly but cannot fit the high energy tail of SED very…

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Multidimensional magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations coupled with stochastic differential equations (SDEs) adapted to test particle acceleration and transport in complex astrophysical flows are presented. The numerical scheme allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Casse , A. Marcowith

Multi-frequency VLBI observations allow studies of the continuum spectrum in the different parts of the parsec scale jets of AGN, providing information on the physical properties of the plasma and magnetic fields in them. Since VLBI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 T. Savolainen , K. Wiik , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski

The origins and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are unknown. Many models attribute their extreme energies to powerful astrophysical jets. Understanding whether jet geometry -- specifically the opening angle…

A new, much improved model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) is presented. We use the WMAP7 Galactic Synchrotron Emission map and more than forty thousand extragalactic rotation measures to constrain the parameters of the GMF model,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Ronnie Jansson , Glennys R. Farrar

The resonant excitation of an electromagnetic guided mode of a slab structure by exterior radiation results in anomalous scattering behavior, including sharp energy-transmission anomalies and field amplification around the frequency of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Stephen P. Shipman , Aaron T. Welters

We model the currently available $\gamma$-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope on Cyg X-3. Thanks to its very strong $\gamma$-ray activity during 2018--2021, the data quality has significantly improved. We study the strong orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Anton Dmytriiev , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Denys Malyshev , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Maria Chernyakova

It is generally believed that the radiation of relativistic particles in a curved magnetic field proceeds in either the synchrotron or the curvature radiation modes. In this paper we show that in strong curved magnetic fields a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-22 S. R. Kelner , A. Yu. Prosekin , F. A. Aharonian

We present a new method to calculate the polarised synchrotron emission of radio AGN sources using magnetic field information from 3-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (RMHD) simulations. Like its predecessor, which uses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Larissa Jerrim , Stas Shabala , Patrick Yates-Jones , Martin Krause , Ross Turner , Georgia Stewart , Chris Power

We present a novel method to search for structures of coherently aligned patterns in ultra-high energy cosmic-ray arrival directions simultaneously across the entire sky. This method can be used to obtain information on the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Marcus Wirtz , Teresa Bister , Martin Erdmann

In spite of a large number of global three-dimensional (3D) magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of accretion flows and jets being made recently, their astrophysical relevance for realistic situations is not well known. In order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , Y. Kato , S. Mineshige

Measuring the 3D spatial distribution of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and the intracluster medium is crucial yet challenging. The probing of 3D magnetic field's 3D distribution, including the field plane-of-sky orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-28 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

Understanding the role of magnetic fields in star-forming regions is of fundamental importance. In the near future, the exceptional sensitivity of SKA will offer a unique opportunity to evaluate the magnetic field strength in molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

Blazars are classified into high, intermediate and low energy peaked sources based on the location of their synchrotron peak. This lies in infra-red/optical to ultra-violet bands for low and intermediate peaked blazars. The transition from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Haritma Gaur , P. Mohan , Alicja Wierzcholska , Minfeng Gu

The quantum electrodynamical (QED) process of Compton scattering in strong magnetic fields is commonly invoked in atmospheric and inner magnetospheric models of x-ray and soft gamma-ray emission in high-field pulsars and magnetars. A major…

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