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We observe anomalous visible to near-infrared electromagnetic radiation emitted from electrically driven atomic-size point contacts. We show that the number of photons released strongly depends on the quantized conductance steps of the…

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There are still some important unanswered questions about the detailed particle acceleration and escape occurring during the quiescent epoches. As a result, the particle distribution that is adopted in the blazar quiescent spectral model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , C. Y. Yang , J. M. Bai

We investigated the time-dependent radiative and dynamical properties of light supersonic jets launched into an external medium, using hydrodynamic simulations and numerical radiative transfer calculations. These involved various structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Svetlana Korunoska , Khee-Gan Lee , Kai-Yan Lee , Nicola Beddows

We consider whether the hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from Centaurus A is beamed radiation from the active nucleus which is Compton-scattered into our line-of-sight. We derive the spectrum and degree of polarization of scattered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. G. Skibo , C. D. Dermer , R. L. Kinzer

Electrons at relativistic speeds, diffusing in magnetic fields, cause copious emission at radio frequencies in both clusters of galaxies and radio galaxies, through the non-thermal radiation emission called synchrotron. However, the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 Siddharth Malu , Abhirup Datta , Sergio Colafrancesco , Paolo Marchegiani , Ravi Subrahmanyan , D Narasimha , Mark H. Wieringa

Using our new 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code parallelized with MPI, we investigated long-term particle acceleration associated with a relativistic electron-positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-26 K. -I. Nishikawa , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , B. Zhang , P. Hardee , A. Nordlund , J. Frederiksen , Y. Mizuno , H. Sol , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann , M. Oka , G. J. Fishman

We investigate the contribution of the beamed jet component to the high energy emission in young and compact extragalactic radio sources, focusing for the first time on the gamma-ray band. We derive predictions on the gamma-ray luminosities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Giulia Migliori , Aneta Siemiginowska , Brandon C. Kelly , Lukasz Stawarz , Annalisa Celotti , Mitchell C. Begelman

Anomalous transport processes in which the variance of the distance travelled does not necessarily increase linearly with time are modelled using the formalism of continuous time random walks. We compute particle propagators which have the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 B. R. Ragot , J. G. Kirk

The angular distribution of low-frequency radiation after single scattering by an isotropic distribution of relativistic electrons considerably differs from the Rayleigh angular function. In particular, the scattering by an ensemble of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

The inverse Compton scattering of interstellar photons off cosmic-ray electrons seems to play a more important role in the generation of diffuse emission from the Galaxy than thought before. The background radiation field of the Galaxy is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

We extend de concept of Compton scattering to the case of plasmons. This concept was originally applied to electrons in vacuum. Here, we consider electrons in a plasma, and study the scattering properties of photon-plasmon interactions. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 José Tito Mendonça , Fernando Haas

We revisit the kinematics of Compton Scattering (electron-photon interactions producing electrons and photons in the exit channel) covering the full range of energy/momenta distribution between the two colliding particles, with a dedicated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Luca Serafini , Vittoria Petrillo

Synchrotron emissivities, absorptivities, and Faraday rotation and conversion coefficients are needed in modeling a variety of astrophysical sources, including Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sources. We develop a method for estimating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Monika Moscibrodzka , Charles F. Gammie

Nonlinear Compton scattering is an inelastic scattering process where a photon is emitted due to the interaction between an electron and an intense laser field. With the development of X-ray free-electron lasers, the intensity of X-ray…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 S. Shi , J. Chen , Y. J. Yang , Z. C. Yan , X. J. Liu , B. B. Wang

The nature of the intense X-ray emission from powerful extragalactic jets at large ($>1$ kpc) scale is still debated. The scenario that invokes the inverse Compton scattering of the CMB by electrons is challenged by the lack of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 F. Tavecchio

In energetic nonthermal sources such as gamma-ray bursts, AGN or galactic jet sources, etc., one expects both relativistic and transrelativistic shocks acompanied by violent motions of moderately relativistic plasma. We present general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. Bykov , P. Meszaros

Observational and theoretical studies point to microquasars (MQs) as possible counterparts of a significant fraction of the unidentified gamma-ray sources detected so far. At present, a proper scenario to explain the emission beyond soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bosch-Ramon , G. E. Romero , J. M. Paredes

Recent radio and optical large scale jets' observations suggest a two-component jet morphology, consisting of a fast central spine surrounded with a boundary layer with a velocity shear. We study radiation of electrons accelerated at such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Stawarz , M. Ostrowski

Accreting sources such as AGN, X-ray binaries or gamma-ray bursts are known to be strong, high energy emitters. The hard emission is though to originate from plasmas of thermal and/or non-thermal high energy particles. Not only does this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-03 R. Belmont , J. Malzac , A. Marcowith

Massive stars in binary systems have long been regarded as potential sources of high-energy gamma rays.The emission is principally thought to arise in the region where the stellar winds collide and accelerate relativistic particles which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 K. Reitberger , R. Kissmann , A. Reimer , O. Reimer