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Observations of the synchrotron and inverse Compton emissions from ultrarelativistic electrons in astrophysical sources can reveal a great deal about the energy-momentum relations of those electrons. They can thus be used to place bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-19 Brett Altschul

The spectrum of cyclotron radiation produced by electrons with a strongly anisotropic velocity distribution is calculated taking into account higher harmonics. The motion of the electrons is assumed to be ultrarelativistic along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. N. Baushev

The horizontal impact parameter profile of synchrotron radiation, for fixed vertical angle of the photon, is calculated. This profile is observed through an astigmatic optical system, horizontally focused on the electron trajectory and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Artru

It is shown that when an few-cycle, relativistically intense, p-polarized laser pulse is obliquely incident on overdense plasma, the surface electrons may form ultra-thin, highly compressed layers, with a width of a few nanometers. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 D. an der Brügge , A. Pukhov

Synchrotron emission from runaway electrons may be used to diagnose plasma conditions during a tokamak disruption, but solving this inverse problem requires rapid simulation of the electron distribution function and associated synchrotron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Matt Landreman , Adam Stahl , Tünde Fülöp

We consider the synchrotron spectrum produced by mildly-to-highly relativistic collisionless shocks. Simple analytic formulae are derived for the break frequencies (peak frequency, self-absorption frequency, synchrotron and inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Gilad Sadeh

We discuss a semi-analytical solution of the transport equation for electrons at a non-relativistic shock in the presence of synchrotron energy losses. We calculate the spectrum of accelerated (test) particles at any point upstream and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Pasquale Blasi

We model the acceleration of electrons at a shock front in a relativistic blazar jet and compute the radiation they emit in a post-shock region which contains a homogeneous magnetic field. The full space, time and momentum dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , F. M. Rieger , A. Mastichiadis

Within thunderstorms electrons can gain energies of up to hundred(s) of MeV. These electrons can create X-rays and gamma-rays as Bremsstrahlung when they collide with air molecules. Here we calculate the distribution of angles between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Christoph Köhn , Ute Ebert

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

The electron energy distribution index, p, is a fundamental parameter of the process by which electrons at shock fronts are accelerated to relativistic speeds and by which they radiate, via synchrotron emission. This acceleration process is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 P. A. Curran

We extend a method for modeling synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton radiations in blazar jets to include external Compton processes. The basic model assumption is that the blazar radio through soft X-ray flux is nonthermal synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Hannah Krug , Markus Boettcher

Synchrotron radiation mechanism, when electrons are accelerated in a relativistic shock, is known to have serious problems to explain the observed gamma-ray spectrum below the peak for most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs); the synchrotron spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-02 R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , P. Kumar

Classical radiation power from an accelerated massive charge diverges in the zero-mass limit, while some general arguments suggest that strictly massless charge does not not radiate at all. On the other hand, the regularized classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 D. V. Gal'tsov

We calculate the synchrotron self-Compton emission from internal shocks occurring in relativistic winds as a source of gamma-ray bursts, with allowance for self-absorption. For plausible model parameters most pulses within a Gamma-Ray Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

A techniques, describing electron dynamics for magnetic models closed to cyclical accelerators, is developed and applied to the analysis of electromagnetic radiation emitted by charged particles. Formulas for the angular characteristics of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Oleg Shishanin

Particles with energies below the mean energy $E_0$ in relativistic shocked plasmas should assume an equilibrium energy distribution. This leads to a synchrotron spectrum $F_\nu \propto \nu^{1/3}$ up to approximately the critical frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 J. I. Katz

This work is a continuation of a previous effort (Panaitescu 2019) to study the cooling of relativistic electrons through radiation (synchrotron and self-Compton) emission and adiabatic losses, with application to the spectra and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 A. D. Panaitescu , W. T. Vestrand

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

This paper examines the radiative transfer of synchrotron radiation in the presence of a magnetic field configuration resulting from the compression of a highly disordered magnetic field. It is shown that, provided Faraday rotation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 T. V. Cawthorne , P. A. Hughes