English
Related papers

Related papers: Microbunching Instability Based Synchrotron Radiat…

200 papers

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

Black hole superradiance has proven being very valuable in several realms of gravitational physics, and holds a promising discovery potential. In this paper, we consider the superradiant instability of magnetically-charged, rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 David Pereñiguez , Marina de Amicis , Richard Brito , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Studying the polarization and spectral distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in tandem with intensity fluctuations of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) allows us to verify our assumptions on cosmic inflation and investigate…

We investigate whether triggering of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary discs can account for the wide diversity of observed accretion outbursts. We show that short-lived, relatively low accretion rate events probably…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jacob Cleaver , Lee Hartmann , Jaehan Bae

The idea of media-based modulation (MBM) is to embed information in the channel states via intentional perturbations of the transmission media. This article covers a broad range of topics regarding MBM, expanding on its benefits and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ehsan Seifi , Amir K. Khandani , Mehran Atamanesh

The issue of magnetic confinement in magnetic fusion devices is addressed within a purely magnetic approach. Using some Hamiltonian models for the magnetic field lines, the dual impact of low magnetic shear is shown in a unified way. Away…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 Marie-Christine Firpo , Dana Constantinescu

To achieve the true diffraction-limited emittance of a storage ring light source, such as ~10 pm.rad for medium-energy electron beams, within a limited circumference, it is generally necessary to increase the number of bending magnets in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Zhiliang Ren , Zhenghe Bai , Penghui Yang , Lin Wang , Hongliang Xu

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays are currently being developed and deployed for astronomical applications in the visible and near infrared and for sub-millimetre astronomy. One of the main drawbacks of MKIDs is that large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Mario De Lucia , Eoin Baldwin , Gerhard Ulbricht , Colm Bracken , Plamen Stamenov , Tom Ray

Sizable hyperpolarisation, i.e. an imbalance of the occupation numbers of nuclear spins in a sample deviating from thermal equilibrium, is needed in various fields of science. For example, hyperpolarised tracers are utilised in magnetic…

Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenarios associated with intense lasers and electron beams. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. R. Peterson , S. Glenzer , F. Fiuza

The microbunching instability usually exists in the LINAC of a free electron laser (FEL) facility. In many cases, the longitudinal space charge (LSC) is a dominant factor that generates the instability. For the highly bright electron beams,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Dazhang Huang , King Yuen Ng , Qiang Gu

Extremely strong magnetic fields of the order of $10^{15}\,{\rm G}$ are required to explain the properties of magnetars, the most magnetic neutron stars. Such a strong magnetic field is expected to play an important role for the dynamics of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller , Hans-Thomas Janka , Tomasz Rembiasz , Martin Obergaulinger , Pablo Cerda-Duran , Miguel-Angel Aloy

Modern synchrotron light sources are often characterized with high-brightness synchrotron radiation from insertion devices. Inevitably, insertion devices introduce nonlinear distortion to the beam motion. Symplectic tracking is crucial to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ji Li , Jörg Feikes , Tom Mertens , Edward Rial , Markus Ries , Andreas Schälicke , Luis Vera Ramirez

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilises a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disk theory where the shear is…

The origin and phenomenology of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) remains unknown despite more than a decade of efforts. Though several models have been proposed to explain the observed data, none is able to explain alone the variety of events so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 Luciano Nicastro , Cristiano Guidorzi , Eliana Palazzi , Luca Zampieri , Massimo Turatto , Angela Gardini

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

Magneto-optical imaging reveals that in superconducting films of MgB2 a transport current creates avalanche-like flux dynamics where highly branching dendritic penetration patterns are formed. The instability is triggered when the current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Bobyl , D. V. Shantsev , T. H. Johansen , W. N. Kang , H. J. Kim , E. M. Choi , S. I. Lee

The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs result from magnetized shocks or magnetic reconnection in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Ben Margalit , Mathieu Renzo , Lorenzo Sironi , Konstantinos Kovlakas

We consider a quantum well embedded in a zero-dimensional microcavity with a sub-wavelength grated mirror, where the x-linearly polarized exciton mode is strongly coupled to the cavity photon, while y-polarized excitons remain in the weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 O. Kyriienko , T. C. H. Liew , E. A. Ostrovskaya , O. A. Egorov , I. A. Shelykh

We present the first experimental observation of modulation instability of partially spatially incoherent light beams in non-instantaneous nonlinear media. We show that even in such a nonlinear partially coherent system (of…