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The acceleration of energetic particles in astrophysical shear flows is analyzed. We show that in the presence of a non-relativistic gradual velocity shear, power law particle momentum distributions $f(p) \propto p^{-(3+\alpha)}$ may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. M. Rieger , P. Duffy

The strong variability of blazars can be characterized by power spectral densities (PSDs) and Fourier frequency-dependent time lags. In previous work, we created a new theoretical formalism for describing the PSDs and time lags produced via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

Blazars, a class of active galaxies whose jets are relativistic and collimated flows of plasma directed along the line of sight and are prone to a slew of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities. We aim to study the interplay of radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Sriyasriti Acharya , Bhargav Vaidya , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla

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

As one of the leading acceleration mechanisms in laser-driven underdense plasmas, direct laser acceleration (DLA) is capable of producing high-energy-density electron beams in a plasma channel for many applications. However, the mechanism…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 F. -Y. Li , P. K. Singh , S. Palaniyappan , C. -K. Huang

Context: Understanding the acceleration mechanism of astrophysical jets has been a cumbersome endeavor from both the theoretical and observational perspective. Although several breakthroughs have been achieved in recent years, on all sides,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 I. Liodakis

With their jet pointing towards us, blazars are ideal tools to study the physics and structure of extragalactic jets. Their powerful jets are cosmic particle accelerators and are alleged to be one of the production sites of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Claudia M. Raiteri

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 study the processes of particle acceleration which take place in the field of a rotating black hole as part of a mechanism of formation of galactic jets within the first parsec from the central source, where gravitation is supposed to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. de Felice , O. Zanotti

Shock acceleration is considered one of the most important mechanisms for the acceleration of astrophysical energetic particles. In this work, we calculate the trajectories of a large number of test charged particles accurately in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 F. -J. Kong , G. Qin , S. -S. Wu , L. -H. Zhang , H. -N. Wang , T. Chen , P. Sun

Active Galaxies with a jet pointing towards us, so-called blazars, play an important role in the field of high-energy astrophysics. One of the most important features in the classification scheme of blazars is the peak frequency of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-11 Theo Glauch , Tobias Kerscher , Paolo Giommi

In this work, I present a qualitative discussion on the prospect of production of ultra-high photons in blazars. The sources are a subclass of active galactic nuclei which host supermassive black holes and fire relativistic jets into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

Blazars are a rare class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets pointing towards the observer. Jets are thought to be launched as Poynting-flux dominated outflows that accelerate to relativistic speeds at the expense of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Maria Petropoulou , Filippos Psarras , Dimitrios Giannios

Observations of minute-scale flares in TeV Blazars place constraints on particle acceleration mechanisms in those objects. The implications for a variety of radiation mechanisms have been addressed in the literature; in this paper we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joni Tammi , Peter Duffy

Relativistic magnetized jets from active galaxies are among the most powerful cosmic accelerators, but their particle acceleration mechanisms remain a mystery. We present a new acceleration mechanism associated with the development of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 E. Paulo Alves , Jonathan Zrake , Frederico Fiuza

The physical processes of the gamma-ray emission and particle acceleration during the prompt phase in GRBs are still unsettled. In order to perform an unambiguous physical modelling of observations, a clear identification of the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Felix Ryde , Shabnam Iyyani , Björn Ahlgren , Asaf Peer , Vidushi Sharma , Christoffer Lundman , Magnus Axelsson

A time-dependent emission model for blazar jets, taking acceleration due to Fermi-I and Fermi-II processes for electrons and protons as well as all relevant radiative processes self-consistently into account, is presented. The presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

The theory of particle acceleration at shock fronts is briefly reviewed, with special emphasis on the production of the particles responsible for the nonthermal emission from blazars. The flat radio/IR spectra of these sources cannot be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Kirk

SS 433 is a microquasar, a stellar binary system with collimated relativistic jets. We observed SS 433 in gamma rays using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), finding an energy-dependent shift in the apparent position of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bi , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaou , M. Breuhau , R. Brose , A. M. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , R. Cecil , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , S. Dai , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , V. Doroshenko , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. -P. Ernenwein , M. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , G. Grolleron , L. Haerer , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , R. Khatoon , B. Khélifi , S. Klepser , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , A. Kundu , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemière , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , A. Marcowith , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mehta , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , T. Murach , K. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , A. Priyana Noel , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , D. A. Prokhorov , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , H. Ren , M. Renaud , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzman , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , K. Streil , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , T. Unbehaun , C. van Eldik , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , C. Venter , J. Vink , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka

Through the modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of blazars we can infer the physical parameters required to originate the flux we see. Then we can estimate the power of blazar jets in the form of matter and fields. These estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghisellini