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Highly magnetised rapidly spinning neutron stars are widely considered to be natural sites for acceleration of charged particles. Powerful acceleration mechanism due to unipolar induction is thought to operate in the magnetospheres of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Rudak

A phase transition from paramagnetism to ferromagnetism in neutron star interior is explored. Since there is $^3$P$_2$ neutron superfluid in neutron star interior, it can be treated as a system of magnetic dipoles. Under the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-12 Qiu He Peng , Hao Tong

This is the second paper of our series of works of studying the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing two-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Doosoo Yoon , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ya-Ping Li , Luca Ciotti

Magnetar flares generate Alfv\'en waves bouncing in the closed magnetosphere with energy up to $\sim 10^{46}$ erg. We show that on a 10-ms timescale the waves are transmitted into the star and form a compressed packet of high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Xinyu Li , Andrei M. Beloborodov

In the seconds following their formation in core-collapse supernovae, "proto"-magnetars drive neutrino-heated magneto-centrifugal winds. Using a suite of two-dimensional axisymmetric MHD simulations, we show that relatively slowly rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 Tejas Prasanna , Matthew S. B. Coleman , Matthias J. Raives , Todd A. Thompson

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) require mass accretion onto the central engine. On large galactic scales, torques from a stellar bar can efficiently remove angular momentum from gas, and cause it to move inwards along two hydrodynamical shocks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

Pulsars have been identified as good candidates for the acceleration of cosmic rays, up to ultra-high energies. However, a precise description of the acceleration processes at play is still to be established. Using 2D particle-in-cell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 C. Guépin , B. Cerutti , K. Kotera

Rapid and luminous flares of non-thermal radiation observed in blazars require an efficient mechanism of energy dissipation and particle acceleration in relativistic active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Particle acceleration in relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Krzysztof Nalewajko

In this paper, we investigate the acceleration in relativistic jets of high-energy proton preaccelerated in the magnetosphere of a supermassive black hole. The proton reaches maximum energy when passing the total potential difference of $U$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-14 Ya. N. Istomin , A. A. Gunya

Remnants of AGN jets and their surrounding cocoons leave colossal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fossil structures storing total energies ~10^{60} erg. The original active galacic nucleus (AGN) may be dead but the fossil will retain its stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory Benford , R. J. Protheroe

Transient phenomena in magnetars have been considered as possible acceleration sites of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-rays (CRs), whose energy reaches ~200 EeV, such as the Amaterasu particle. However, the process of CR acceleration and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Jiro Shimoda , Tomoki Wada

A linearly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian (LP-LG) laser beam with a twist index $l = -1$ has field structure that fundamentally differs from the field structure of a conventional linearly polarized Gaussian beam. Close to the axis of the LP-LG…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Yin Shi , David R Blackman , Ping Zhu , Alexey Arefiev

The electron motion in rather strong magnetic fields (when only the lowest Landau level is populated) is considered. In this case the electron kinetic energy is frozen out and the electrons are guided by slowly varied potential. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Matulis

A new particle acceleration process in a developing Alfv\'{e}n turbulence in the course of successive parametric instabilities of a relativistic pair plasma is investigated by utilyzing one-dimensional electromagnetic full particle code.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Matsukiyo , T. Hada

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

We propose a particle acceleration mechanism driven by large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves in a strong magnetic field. The acceleration process proceeds through multiple stages triggered by counterpropagating wave-particle resonant acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 S. Isayama , S. Matsukiyo , T. Sano , S. H. Chen

An oblique-rotating pulsar generates a relativistic striped wind in a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The termination shock of the PWN compresses the Poynting-flux-dominated flow and drives magnetic reconnection. By carrying out particle-in-cell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Yingchao Lu , Fan Guo , Patrick Kilian , Hui Li , Chengkun Huang , Edison Liang

A Tevatron is an accelerator capable of imparting TeV energies to particles like a proton (1 TeV = $10^{12}$ eV). By analogy, a Zevatron is an accelerator scheme envisaged to accelerate particles to ZeV energies (1 ZeV = $10^{21}$ eV).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-13 Yousef I. Salamin

A mechanism for proton acceleration to ~10^21eV is suggested. It may operate in accretion flows onto thin dark matter filaments of cosmic structure formation. The flow compresses the ambient magnetic field to strongly increase and align it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-11 Mikhail Malkov , Roald Sagdeev , Patrick Diamond

A new electron acceleration mechanism is identified that develops when a relativistically intense laser irradiates the wedge of an over-dense plasma. This induces a diffracted electromagnetic wave with a significant longitudinal electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 S. Marini , P. S. Kleij , M. Grech , M. Raynaud , C. Riconda