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We present a study of direct laser driven electron acceleration and scaling of attosecond bunch compression in unbound vacuum. Simple analytical expressions and detailed three-dimensional numerical calculations including space charge reveal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Alexander Sell , Franz X. Kärtner

Emission of high energy gamma rays via the non-linear inverse Compton scattering process (ICS) in interactions of ultra-intense laser pulses with thin solid foils is studied using particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the angular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Jiří Vyskočil , Evgeny Gelfer , Ondřej Klimo

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

The extremely high brightness temperature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires that their emission mechanism must be "coherent", either through concerted particle emission by bunches or through an exponential growth of a plasma wave mode or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Bing Zhang

Induced Compton scattering (ICS) is a nonlinear interaction between intense electromagnetic radiation and a rarefied plasma. Although the magnetosphere of pulsars is a potential cite at which ICS occurs in nature, the ICS signatures have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-13 Shuta J. Tanaka , Ryo Yamazaki , Yasuhiro Kuramitsu , Youichi Sakawa

The Main Aim of this paper is to explain the emergence of new components of pulsars at higher radio bands by implementing the Inverse Compton Scattering Mechanism. From pulsar radio observation, it is seen that a couple of pulsars reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 Tridib Roy , Mayuresh Surnis , Mageshwaran Tamilan , Monalisa Halder , Siddhartha Biswas

Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is an elemental radiation process that produces high-energy photons both in nature and in the laboratory. Non-linear ICS is a process in which multiple photons are converted to a single high-energy photon.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Yoshitaka Taira , Takehito Hayakawa , Masahiro Katoh

We investigate induced Compton scattering of a circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating in a magnetized electron-positron pair plasma using one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations. In this system, two distinct modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shoma F. Kamijima , Rei Nishiura , Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within the framework of the cyclotron-self-Compton model. Emission is produced by two counter-streaming beams within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

We develop a model of the generation of coherent radio emission in the Crab pulsar, magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Emission is produced by a reconnection-generated beam of particles via a variant of Free Electron Laser (FEL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov

Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique source of highly monochromatic x-ray and gamma radiation. We investigate theoretically the cumulative effects of repeated interactions between the electron beam and a train of powerful laser…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 D. V. Gavrilenko , A. A. Savchenko , M. N. Strikhanov , A. A. Tishchenko

Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique mechanism for producing fast pulses - picosecond and below - of bright X- to gamma-rays. These nominally narrow spectral bandwidth electromagnetic radiation pulses are efficiently produced in the…

The interaction of coherent nonlinear structures (such as sub-cycle solitons, electron vortices and wake Langmuir waves) with a strong wake wave in a collisionless plasma can be exploited in order to produce ultra-short electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , F. F. Kamenets , F. Pegoraro

This paper reports on the use of coherent microwave scattering (CMS) for spatially resolved electron number density measurements of elongated plasma structures induced at mid-IR femtosecond filamentation in air. The presented studies…

Hard, non-thermal, persistent pulsed X-ray emission extending between 10 keV and $\sim 150$ keV has been observed in nearly ten magnetars. For inner-magnetospheric models of such emission, resonant inverse Compton scattering of soft thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Zorawar Wadiasingh , Matthew G. Baring , Peter L. Gonthier , Alice K. Harding

Core and conal emission beams of radio pulsars have been identified observationally (Rankin 1983,1993; Lyne and Manchester 1988), In the inner gap model (Ruderman and Sutherland 1975, hereafter RS75), the gap continually breaks down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 G. J. Qiao , W. P. Lin

Strongly magnetizing a plasma adds a range of waves that do not exist in unmagnetized plasmas and enlarges the laser-plasma interaction (LPI) landscape. In this paper, we use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to investigate strongly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Lili Manzo , Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi

In gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic-ray physics, the continuous approximation of inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is widely adopted to model the evolution of electron energy. However, when the initial electron energy approaches $\sim100$ TeV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Junji Xia , Xingjian Lv , Kun Fang , Siming Liu
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