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Emission of light by a single electron moving on a curved trajectory (synchrotron radiation) is one of the most well-known fundamental radiation phenomena. However experimental situations are more complex as they involve many electrons,…

We have applied an effective numerical scheme for cosmic-ray transport to 3D MHD simulations of jet flow in radio galaxies (see the companion paper by Jones et al. 1999). The marriage of relativistic particle and 3D magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Tregillis , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Charles Park

I present a computationally efficient way to account for synchrotron and its inverse Compton scattered emission along with the resulting radiative losses, in a self-consistent way, for a relativistic distribution of electrons continuously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Papathanassiou

We describe a numerical model constructed for the study of the emission of radiation from relativistic plasma under conditions characteristic, e.g., to gamma-ray bursts (GRB's) and active galactic nuclei (AGN's). The model solves self…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asaf Pe'er , Eli Waxman

Energy distribution of electrons in the plasma sustained by the electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) discharge has a complicated shape as a function of various parameters that still remains unknown. Meanwhile, it is an important plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Elena Kiseleva , Ivan Izotov , Vadim Skalyga

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

Many astrophysical sources radiate via synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons. The electrons give off their kinetic energy as radiation and this radiative loss modifies the electron energy distribution. An analytical treatment of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Siddharth Malik

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

An equation is derived to calculate the dynamics of relativistic magnetized plasma which decelerates by sweeping up matter from the ISM. Reduction to the non-radiative and radiative regimes is demonstrated. The evolving electron momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

In this paper we present the spectrum of synchro-curvature self-Compton (SCSC) radiation of relativistic electrons with a power-law distribution of Lorentz factors. We find that the resulting spectrum is significantly different from that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

The spectrum and polarization produced by particles spiraling in a magnetic field undergo dramatic changes as the emitters transition from nonrelativistic to relativistic energies. However, none of the currently available methods for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Brandon Wolfe , Fulvio Melia

Robust matching of side-scan sonar imagery remains a fundamental challenge in seafloor mapping due to view-dependent backscatter, shadows, and geometric distortion. This paper proposes a novel matching framework that combines physical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 Can Lei , Hayat Rajani , Nuno Gracias , Rafael Garcia , Huigang Wang

We report on the development of a numerical code to calculate the angle-dependent synchrotron + synchrotron self-Compton radiation from relativistic jet sources with partially ordered magnetic fields and anisotropic particle distributions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Omar Jamil , Markus Boettcher

Synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons is an important radiation mechanism in many astrophysical sources. In the sources where the synchrotron cooling time scale $t_c$ is shorter than the dynamical time scale $t_{dyn}$, electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

The jets emanating from the centers of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic objects in the universe. Investigating how the morphology of the jet's synchrotron emission depends on the magnetic nature of the jet's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Joana A. Kramer , Nicholas R. MacDonald

Some high-energy experiments have suffered from synchrotron-radiation background. As a measure, we have developed a new calculation method of synchrotron radiation based on a real beam orbit, aiming at quantitative estimations and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Tetsuo Abe , Hitoshi Yamamoto

We introduce a model that can accurately simulate radiation from undulator sources for ray tracing applications. It incorporates several key effects relevant to 4$^\text{th}$ generation synchrotron sources, such as electron emittance,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Manuel Sanchez del Rio , Juan Reyes-Herrera

Synchrotron emission is an important process in Galactic dynamics and a potentially confusing foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observations. Though the mechanism of synchrotron emission is well understood, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Smoot

We study ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar measurements of scattering by targets located below a rough air-soil interface. By considering the inherent space/angle limitations of this imaging modality, we introduce a simplified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Arnold Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

The typical spectrum of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) indicates that the electron cooling is suppressed in spite of the strong magnetic field in the standard synchrotron model. Recent Particle-in-Cell simulations show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano
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