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We derive expressions for the total and linearly-polarized synchrotron emissivity of an element of plasma containing relativistic particles and disordered magnetic field which has been sheared or compressed along three independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Laing

Synchrotron radiation losses are a significant cause of concern for high-temperature aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton-Boron 11. The fact that radiation losses occur primarily in the high-energy tail, where the radiation itself has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ian E. Ochs , Mikhail E. Mlodik , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Although the physical origin of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is still controversial, synchrotron radiation from accelerated electrons is a promising mechanism. It is believed that electrons are accelerated continuously by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Yue Zhang , Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang

It is widely believed that the maximum energy of synchrotron photons when electrons are accelerated in shocks via the Fermi process is about 50 MeV (in plasma comoving frame). We show that under certain conditions, which are expected to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Kumar , R. A. Hernández , Z. Bosnjak , R. Barniol Duran

Energy densities of relativistic electrons and protons in extended galactic and intracluster regions are commonly determined from spectral radio and (rarely) $\gamma$-ray measurements. The time-independent particle spectral density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yoel Rephaeli , Massimo Persic

Relativistic jets launched by rotating black holes are powerful emitters of non-thermal radiation. Extraction of the rotational energy via electromagnetic stresses produces magnetically-dominated jets, which may become turbulent. Studies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Emanuele Sobacchi , Lorenzo Sironi , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

The emissivity for the neutrino pair synchrotron radiation in strong magnetic fields has been calculated both analytically and numerically for high densities and moderate temperatures, as can be found in neutron stars. Under these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Vidaurre , A. Perez , H. Sivak , J. Bernabeu , J. M. Ibanez

Synchrotron emission is believed to be a major radiation mechanism during gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission phase. A significant drawback of this assumption is that the theoretical predicted spectrum, calculated within the framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asaf Pe'er , Bing Zhang

Abridged.-- We demonstrate that the radiation emitted by ultrarelativistic electrons in highly nonuniform, small-scale magnetic fields is different from synchrotron radiation if the electron's transverse deflections in these fields are much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mikhail V. Medvedev

We combine the GMRT low frequency radio observations of SN 1993J with the VLA high frequency radio data to get a near simultaneous spectrum around day 3200 since explosion. The low frequency measurements of the supernova determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Poonam Chandra , Alak Ray , Sanjay Bhatnagar

Nature's most powerful high-energy sources are capable of accelerating particles to high energy and radiate it away on extremely short timescales, even shorter than the light crossing time of the system. It is yet unclear what physical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

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,…

Electron and positron beams in storage-rings self-polarize by emitting spin-flipping synchrotron radiation. If new ultralight particles couple to $e^\pm$, their emission in synchrotron-like radiation would modify the characteristic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-28 Iftah Galon

We analyze the energy distributions of final (stable) products - gamma rays, neutrinos, and electrons - produced in inelastic proton-proton collisions in the PeV energy regime. We also calculate the energy spectrum of synchrotron radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Silvia Celli , Felix Aharonian , Stefano Gabici

Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission from relativistic blast waves expanding into an external medium. The blast wave is believed to amplify the magnetic field and accelerate the electrons into a power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jonathan Granot , Re'em Sari

The details of trajectories of charged particles become increasingly important for proper understanding of processes of formation of radiation in strong and curved magnetic fields. Because of damping of the perpendicular component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-23 A. Yu. Prosekin , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

We present a theoretical study on the radiative self-polarization of a high-energy electron beam propagating perpendicular to a strong magnetic field. Recently, a similar setup has been proposed as a source of polarized electron and photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 O. Novak , M. Diachenko , R. Kholodov

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

Developing avoidance or mitigation strategies of runaway electrons (RE) in magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) plasmas is of crucial importance for the safe operation of ITER. In order to develop these strategies, an accurate diagnostic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 L. Carbajal , D. del-Castillo-Negrete
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