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Stochastic acceleration of charged particles due to their interactions with plasma waves may be responsible for producing superthermal particles in a variety of astrophysical systems. This process can be described as a diffusion process in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-05 Zhonghui Fan , Siming Liu

This paper describes the acceleration of high energies protons captured by electrostatic waves in the frame of jet arising in the area of instability of relativistic jet, where spiral structures are excited. The wave has a spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Ya. N. Istomin , A. A. Gunya

Context: Stochastic acceleration is thought to be a key mechanism in the energization of solar flare electrons. Aims: We study whether stochastic acceleration can reproduce the observed soft-hard-soft evolution of the spectral features of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of transrelativistic shear acceleration dedicated to a jet-cocoon system of active galactic nuclei. A certain fraction of galactic cosmic rays in a halo is entrained, and sufficiently high-energy particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , B. Theodore Zhang

Extragalactic plasma jets are some of the few astrophysical environments able to confine ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, but whether they are capable of accelerating these particles is unknown. In this work, we revisit particle acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Benoît Cerutti , Gwenael Giacinti

We consider particle acceleration to high energy via diffusive shock acceleration in a simple, self-consistent shock in jet model for blazars. Electrons are assumed to be accelerated at a shock front in relativistic jets and radiate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Rieger , J. G. Kirk , A. Mastichiadis

Weibel instability created in collisionless shocks is responsible for particle (electron, positron, and ion) acceleration. Using a 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code, we have investigated particle acceleration associated…

The radiation physics of bright prompt optical emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains a puzzle. Assuming that the GRB ejecta is structured, we investigated this issue by characterizing the ejecta as an ultra-relativistic uniform jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Zi-Qi Wang , Xiao-Li Huang , En-Wei Liang

A high energy power law is a common feature in the spectra of many astrophysical objects. We show that the photons in a relativistic plasma with a variable Lorentz factor go through repeated scattering with electrons to gain energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Mukesh K. Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

We examine the possibility that the relativistic jets observed in many active galactic nuclei may be powered by the Fermi acceleration of protons in a tenuous corona above a two-temperature accretion disk. In this picture the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Prasad Subramanian , Peter A. Becker , Demosthenes Kazanas

We study the acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at FR-II radio galaxies by performing Monte Carlo simulations for the transport, scattering, and energy change of the CR particles injected into the time-evolving jet flows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang

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

We study the stochastic variation of blazar emission under a 2-D spatially resolved leptonic jet model we previously developed. Random events of particle acceleration and injection in small zones within the emission region are assumed to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Xuhui Chen , Martin Pohl , Markus Böttcher , Shan Gao

We developed theory of particle acceleration inside the relativistic rotating electron-positron force-free jet with spiral magnetic field. We considered perturbation of stationary magnetic field structure and found that acceleration takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Beresnyak , Ya. N. Istomin , V. I. Pariev

We investigate the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray flares of Mrk 421 on 2008 June 6-15 using the synchrotron self- Compton(SSC) model with electron acceleration, in which an evident correlation between the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray bands appears, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Gang Cao , Jiancheng Wang

It is surprising to find a fact for migration in the peak positions of synchrotron spectra energy distribution component during in the activity epochs of Mrk 421, accompanying with an orphan flaring at the X-ray and GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Y. G. Zheng , C. Y. Yang , Shi-Ju Kang , J. M. Bai

We explore photospheric emissions from stratified two-component jets, wherein a highly relativistic spine outflow is surrounded by a wider and less relativistic sheath outflow. Thermal photons are injected in regions of high optical depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki , Masaomi Ono , Shiu-Hang Lee , Jirong Mao , Shoichi Yamada , Asaf Pe'er , Akira Mizuta , Seiji Harikae

Astrophysical jets are relativistic outflows that remain collimated for remarkably many orders of magnitude. Despite decades of research, the origin of cosmic rays (CRs) remains unclear, but jets launched by both supermassive black holes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Dimitrios Kantzas , Sera Markoff , Matteo Lucchini , Chiara Ceccobello , Koushik Chatterjee

We discuss possible mechanisms of acceleration of particles in solar flares and show that turbulence plays an important role in all the mechanism. It is also argued that stochastic particle acceleration by turbulent plasma waves is the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-14 Vahe' Petrosian

We report detailed studies of the X-ray emission from the kpc scale jet in the nearest active galaxy, Cen A. 41 compact sources were found within the jet, 13 of which were newly identified. We construct the luminosity function for the…