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We use large hybrid (kinetic protons-fluid electrons) simulations to investigate the transport of energetic particles in self-consistent electromagnetic configurations of collisionless shocks. In previous papers of this series, we showed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We compute the effects of the centrifugal pressure supported shock waves on the emitted spectrum from an accretion disk primarily consisting of low angular momentum matter. Electrons are very efficiently accelerated by the accretion shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Samir Mandal , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

With a test-particle simulation, we investigate the effect of large-scale coronal magnetic fields on electron acceleration at an outward-propagating coronal shock with a circular front. The coronal field is approximated by an analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen , Fan Guo , Shiwei Feng , Guohui Du , Gang Li

A shock wave propagating perpendicularly to an ambient magnetic field accelerates particles considerably faster than in the parallel propagation regime. However, the perpendicular acceleration stops after the shock overruns a circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-06 Mikhail Malkov , Martin Lemoine

Electron acceleration to non-thermal energies in low Mach number (M<5) shocks is revealed by radio and X-ray observations of galaxy clusters and solar flares, but the electron acceleration mechanism remains poorly understood. Diffusive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-14 Xinyi Guo , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

Electromagnetic radiation from blazar jets often displays strong variability, extending from radio to $\gamma$-ray frequencies. In a few cases, this variability has been characterized using Fourier time lags, such as those detected in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Tiffany R. Lewis , Peter A. Becker , Justin D. Finke

In this paper we present a fully selfconsistent SSC model with particle acceleration due to shock and stochastic acceleration (Fermi-I and Fermi-II-Processes respectively) to model the quiescent spectral energy distribution (SED) observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-28 Matthias Weidinger , Michael Rüger , Felix Spanier

Electron acceleration to non-thermal energies is known to occur in low Mach number (M<5) shocks in galaxy clusters and solar flares, but the electron acceleration mechanism remains poorly understood. Using two-dimensional (2D)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-26 Xinyi Guo , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

We study the variation of the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 as a function of source activity, from quiescent to flaring. Through chi-square-minimization we model eight simultaneous SED datasets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Elizabeth Rivers , Richard Rothschild , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Electrons emitting non-thermal photons in blazars are possibly accelerated by turbulences developed in jets. In this paper, we consider the case so-called hard-sphere scattering as an interaction model between turbulences and electrons, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Katsuaki Asano , Masaaki Hayashida

The linear theory of shock acceleration predicts the maximum particle energy to be limited only by the acceleration time and the size of the shock. We study the combined effect of acceleration nonlinearity (shock modification by accelerated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , T. W. Jones

In the majority of the literature on plasma shock waves, electrons play the role of "ghost particles," since their contribution to mass and momentum flows is negligible, and they have been treated as only taking care of the electric plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hans J. Fahr , John D. Richardson , Daniel Verscharen

We present a new time-dependent leptonic code that we developed to model the varying multi-wavelength (MWL) emission during blazar flares. In our modeling, we assume that the blazar emission originates from a plasma blob located in the jet,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Dmytriiev , H. Sol , A. Zech

The author is developing a numerical code with thousands of emission zones to simulate the time-dependent multi-waveband emission from blazars. The code is based on a model in which turbulent plasma flowing at a relativistic speed down a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-09 A. P. Marscher

Laser-accelerated electron beams have been created at a kHz repetition rate from the {\it reflection} of intense ($\sim10^{18}$ W/cm$^2$), $\sim$40 fs laser pulses focused on a continuous water-jet in an experiment at the Air Force Research…

We consider a fast magnetosonic multifluid shock as a representation of the solar-wind termination shock. We assume the action of the transition happens in a three-step process: In the first step, the upstream supersonic solar-wind plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Hans J. Fahr , Daniel Verscharen

We conducted a multi-wavelength analysis of the blazar Mrk\,501, utilizing observations from \emph{Astro}Sat (SXT, LAXPC), \emph{Swift-UVOT}, and \emph{Fermi-LAT} during the period August 15, 2016 to March 27, 2022. The resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-04 Javaid Tantry , Zahir Shah , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal , Sikandar Akbar

The broadband emission observed from radio galaxies, BL Lac objects and quasars is thought to be produced by energetic electrons confined in plasma blobs which are ejected from supermassive black holes at relativistic speeds. The lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Reinhard Schlickeiser , Charles D. Dermer

Blazars are known to emit a broad band emission from radio to gamma-rays with rapid time variations, particularly, in X- and gamma-rays. Synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering are thought to play an important role in emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kusunose , F. Takahara , H. Li

Low Mach number, high beta fast mode shocks can occur in the magnetic reconnection outflows of solar flares. These shocks, which occur above flare loop tops, may provide the electron energization responsible for some of the observed hard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 Jaehong Park , Chuang Ren , Jared C. Workman , Eric G. Blackman