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The synchrotron emission observed from many astrophysical objects is commonly modelled to arise from relativistic electrons in an emission region occupied by a spatially homogeneous, but tangled magnetic field. However, we know that…

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We model the emission of high energy photons due to relativistic charged particle motion in intense laser-plasma interactions. This is done within a particle-in-cell code, for which high frequency radiation normally cannot be resolved due…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Erik Wallin , Arkady Gonoskov , Mattias Marklund

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

In gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the electron pitch angle ($\alpha$) is usually assumed to be isotropically distributed. However, recent numerical simulations indicate that only the high-energy electrons (with Lorentz factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Kang-Fa Cheng , Kai-Xian Luo , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jirong Mao , Hong-Bang Liu , Yu-Hang Mo , Jin-Rong Huang , Rong-Li Weng , Wen-Jie Xie , Gao-Jin Yu

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

We provide a theoretical description of synchrotron fluctuations arising from magnetic turbulence. We derive an expression that relates the correlation of synchrotron fluctuations for an arbitrary index of relativistic electrons with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov

The spectrum of cyclotron radiation produced by electrons with a strongly anisotropic velocity distribution is calculated taking into account higher harmonics. The motion of the electrons is assumed to be ultrarelativistic along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. N. Baushev

The guiding center formalism is employed to analyze the motion of a charged relativistic particle in an inhomogeneous magnetic field, subject to magnetic mirroring and energy loss due to cooling. The governing equation for the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Alexander Philippov

For synchrotron radiation from relativistic electrons having a power-law energy distribution with a power-law index $p$ in an optically thin medium with a locally uniform magnetic field, it is generally adopted that the spectral index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Paul C. W. Lai , Kaye J. Li , Y. X. Jane Yap , Kinwah Wu , Albert K. H. Kong

This paper examines the radiative transfer of synchrotron radiation in the presence of a magnetic field configuration resulting from the compression of a highly disordered magnetic field. It is shown that, provided Faraday rotation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 T. V. Cawthorne , P. A. Hughes

Synchrotron radiation is analyzed in the classical effective Lorentz invariance violating model of Myers-Pospelov. Within the full far-field approximation we compute the electric and magnetic fields, the angular distribution of the power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Montemayor , L. F. Urrutia

Depolarization of diffuse radio synchrotron emission is classified in terms of wavelength-independent and wavelength-dependent depolarization in the context of regular magnetic fields and of both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 Carl Shneider , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

Polarization measurements from relativistic outflows are a valuable tool to probe the geometry of the emission region and the microphysics of the particle distribution. Indeed, the polarization level depends on: (i) the local magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-03 Lara Nava , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

We describe a realistic model for a focused high-intensity laser pulse in three dimensions. Relativistic dynamics of an electron submitted to such pulse is described by equations of motion with ponderomotive potential depending on a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. B. Narozhny , M. S. Fofanov

Efforts are underway to magnetically confine electron--positron pair plasmas to study their unique behavior, which is characterized by significant changes in plasma time and length scales, supported waves, and unstable modes. However, use…

The paper presents a theoretical model describing the full power spectra of synchrotron radiation generated by relativistic electrons in a turbulent magnetic field. Using the theoretical model, numerical calculations of the complete power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 P. K. Batrakov , V. O. Yurovsky , I. Kudryashov

We use a new approach to derive dielectric mixing rules for macroscopically homogeneous and isotropic multicomponent mixtures of anisotropic inhomogeneous dielectric particles. Two factors of anisotropy are taken into account, the shape of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Ya. Sushko

The power spectrum formula of the synchrotron radiation generated by the electron and positron moving along the concentric circles at the opposite angular velocities in homogenous magnetic field is derived in the Schwinger version of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

The behaviour of a strongly-magnetized collisional electron-positron plasma which is optically thin to cyclotron radiation is considered, and the distribution functions accessible to it on the various timescales in the system are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Daniel Kennedy , Per Helander