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In the framework of the classical effective Lorentz invariance violating (LIV) model of Myers-Pospelov, we present a complete calculation of the synchrotron radiation produced by a circularly moving charge in the rest frame of the model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Montemayor , Luis F. Urrutia

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

The dynamics of relativistic runaway electrons are analyzed using the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation including deceleration due to the synchrotron radiation and radial diffusion loss caused by stochastic magnetic fluctuations (SMFs).…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Shucai Li , Lu Wang , Z. Y. Chen , D. W. Huang , Weixin Guo , R. H. Tong , F. T. Cui

We extend previous work modeling the Galactic magnetic field in the plane using synchrotron emission in total and polarised intensity. In this work, we include a more realistic treatment of the cosmic-ray electrons using the GALPROP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , J. P. Leahy , S. Leach , A. W. Strong

The spectral shape of the synchrotron X-ray emission from SN 1006 reveals the fundamental role played by radiative losses in shaping the high-energy tail of the electron spectrum. We analyze data from the XMM-Newton SN 1006 Large Program…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Miceli , F. Bocchino , A. Decourchelle , J. Vink , S. Broersen , S. Orlando

Synchrotron X-ray emission from the rims of young supernova remnants allows us to study the high-energy tail of the electrons accelerated at the shock front. The analysis of X-ray spectra can provide information on the physical mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Miceli , F. Bocchino , A. Decourchelle , J. Vink , S. Broersen , S. Orlando

Bremsstrahlung from relativistic electrons is considered under conditions when some transverse direction of momentum transfer is statistically preferred. It is shown that in the dipole approximation all the medium anisotropy effects can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Bondarenco

We discuss the new surprising observational results that indicate quite convincingly that the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is due to synchrotron radiation produced by a particle distribution that has a low energy cut-off. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , G. Oganesyan , S. Ascenzi , L. Nava , A. Celotti , O. S. Salafia , E. M. Ravasio , M. Ronchi

In the internal shock model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the synchrotron spectrum from the fast cooling electrons in a homogeneous downstream magnetic field (MF) is too soft to produce the low-energy slope of GRB spectra. However the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 X. H. Zhao , Z. Li , X. W. Liu , B. B. Zhang , J. M. Bai , P. Meszaros

Exact solutions are given for the Maxwell equations driven by a gyrating ultrarelativistic electron inside a reflecting cylindrical boundary. The axis of the electrons's trajectory and the axis of the surrounding cylinder are supposed to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 Sandor Varro

Synchrotron diffuse radiation (SDR) emission is one of the major Galactic components, in the 100 MHz up to 100 GHz frequency range. Its spectrum and sky map provide valuable measure of the galactic cosmic ray electrons (GCRE) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Dario Grasso , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero

GRB afterglow polarization is discussed. We find an observable, up to 10%, polarization, if the magnetic field coherence length grows at about the speed of light after the field is generated at the shock front. Detection of a polarized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 Andrei Gruzinov , Eli Waxman

Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Madalina Boca , Victor Dinu , Viorica Florescu

Recent work has shown that synchrotron emission from relativistic plasmas leads the electron distribution to form an anisotropic ring in momentum space, which can be unstable to both kinetic and hydrodynamic instabilities. Fundamental to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Ian E. Ochs

Both radiative and mechanical feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei have been found to be important for the evolution of elliptical galaxies. We compute how a shock may be driven from a central black hole into the gaseous envelope of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. -F. Jiang , L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , A. Spitkovsky

The interpretation of Galactic synchrotron observations is complicated by the degeneracy between the strength of the magnetic field perpendicular to the line of sight (LOS), $B_\perp$, and the cosmic-ray electron (CRe) spectrum. Depending…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Marco Padovani , Andrea Bracco , Vibor Jelić , Daniele Galli , Elena Bellomi

Models for the evolution of the integrated energy spectrum of primary cosmic ray electrons in clusters of galaxies have been calculated, including the effects of losses due to inverse Compton (IC), synchrotron, and bremsstrahlung emission,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Craig L. Sarazin

The prompt emission spectrum of Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is characterized by a smoothly joint broken power-law spectrum known as the Band function. The typical low-energy photon index is $\sim -1$, which poses challenge to the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Siyao Xu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

The existing theoretical framework for the energies stored in the synchrotron-emitting lobes of radio galaxies and quasars doesn't properly account for the curved spectral shape that many of them exhibit. We characterise these spectra using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Peter Duffy , Katherine M. Blundell

The instantaneous angular distribution of synchrotron radiation is investigated. The radiation space is divided into two parts. The first part of the space is the interior of a cone with the apex located at the point of a radiating charge,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 V. G. Bagrov , A. N. Kasatkina , A. A. Pecheritsyn