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In the present paper a self-consistent theory, explaining shape of the observed phase-averaged radio spectrum in the frequency range from 100MHz to 10GHz is presented. The radio waves are assumed to be generated near the light cylinder…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze

We find that energy losses due to synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission in blazar jets can produce distinctive signatures in the time-averaged synchrotron and SSC spectra of these objects. For a fairly broad range of particle injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Chiang , Markus Boettcher

We calculate synchrotron radiation in three-dimensional pseudo-Newtonian magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows. We show that the emission is highly variable at optically thin frequencies, with order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joshua E. Goldston , Eliot Quataert , Igor V. Igumenshchev

A complete set of diagnostic tools aimed at producing synthetic synchrotron emissivity, polarization, and spectral index maps from relativistic MHD simulations is presented. As a first application we consider here the case of the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Del Zanna , Delia Volpi , Elena Amato , Niccolo' Bucciantini

The broadband SEDs of blazars exhibit two broad spectral components, which in leptonic emission models are attributed to synchrotron radiation and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) radiation of relativistic electrons. During high state phases,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

Most of the Universe's populations of low energy cosmic ray electrons in the energy range of 1-100 MeV still manage to elude from detection by our instruments, since their synchrotron emission is at too low frequencies. We investigate a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Torsten A. Ensslin , Rashid A. Sunyaev

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

The synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) radiation process is widely held to provide a close representation of the double peaked spectral energy distributions from BL Lac Objects (BL Lacs), which are marked by non-thermal beamed radiations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Paggi , F. Massaro , V. Vittorini , A. Cavaliere , F. D'Ammando , F. Vagnetti , M. Tavani

We explore the multiwavelength radiation properties of the light curves and energy spectra in the dissipative magnetospheres of pulsars. The dissipative magnetospheres are simulated by the pseudo-spectral method with the combined force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

Using the first three and a half years of observations from the Energetic Gamma Ray Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), phase-resolved analyses are performed on the emission from the three brightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Fierro , P. F. Michelson , P. L. Nolan , D. J. Thompson

Results of a leptonic jet model for the prompt emission and early afterglows of GRBs are presented. The synchrotron component is modeled with the canonical Band spectrum and the synchrotron self-Compton component is calculated from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Although these pulsars have low surface magnetic fields, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex G. Muslimov

Synchrotron radiation of ultra-relativistic particles accelerated in a pulsar wind nebula may dominate its spectrum up to gamma-ray energies. Because of the short cooling time of the gamma-ray emitting electrons, the gamma-ray emission zone…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-20 A. M. Bykov , G. G. Pavlov , A. V. Artemyev , Yu. A. Uvarov

Giant pulses from Crab pulsar were observed together with Radioastron space radiotelescope, Global EVN radio telescopes and Kvazar-KVO VLBI stations to study the scattering effects in the ISM. Five observing sessions were conducted at 18 cm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Alexey Rudnitskiy , Mikhail Popov , Vladimir Soglasnov

Synchrotron radiation and Compton scattering are widely accepted as the most likely emission mechanisms of some astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The measurement on polarization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-18 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin , Yunguo Jiang

We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs. Within the framework of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing Zhang , Alice K. Harding

We investigate, in terms of production from pulsars and their nebulae, the cosmic ray positron and electron fluxes above $\sim10$ GeV, observed by the AMS-02 experiment up to 1 TeV. We concentrate on the Vela-X case. Starting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-10 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , A. Treves

Whithin the framework of the Planck satellite polarisation calibration, we present a study of the Crab Nebula spectral energy distribution (SED) over more than 6 decades in frequency ranging from 1 to $\rm 10^6 GHz$. The Planck satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Juan Francisco Macias-Perez , F. Mayet , J. Aumont , F. X. Desert

We present a model of the spectra of gamma-ray emitting blazars in which a single homogeneous emission region both emits synchrotron photons directly and scatters them to high (gamma-ray) energy before emission (a ``synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Mastichiadis , J. G. Kirk

We are developing time- and energy-resolved near-IR/optical/UV photon detectors based on sharp superconducting-normal transition edges in thin films. We report observations of the Crab pulsar made during prototype testing at the McDonald…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Roger W. Romani , A. J. Miller , B. Cabrera , S. W. Nam , John M. Martinis