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Blazars are characterized by large amplitude and fast variability, indicating that the electron distribution is rapidly changing, often on time scales shorter than the light crossing time. We study the time dependent behavior of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Chiaberge , Gabriele Ghisellini

We analyze the energy distributions of final (stable) products - gamma rays, neutrinos, and electrons - produced in inelastic proton-proton collisions in the PeV energy regime. We also calculate the energy spectrum of synchrotron radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Silvia Celli , Felix Aharonian , Stefano Gabici

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 low-energy spectra of gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission are closely related to the energy distribution of electrons, which is further regulated by their cooling processes. We develop a numerical code to calculate the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang , Hong-Shi Zong

Radio relics are giant sources of diffuse synchrotron radio emission in the outskirts of galaxy clusters that are associated with shocks in the intracluster medium. Still, the origin of relativistic particles that make up relics is not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 David C. Smolinski , Denis Wittor , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen

We consider turbulent synchrotron emitting media that also exhibits Faraday rotation and provide a statistical description of synchrotron polarization fluctuations. In particular, we consider these fluctuations as a function of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

The new results of the evolution of the synchrotron peak for Mrk 421 are mostly likely related to the particle acceleration process. In order to account for the above results, we present a model of blazar variability during the flare in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

A growing number of both galactic and extragalactic supernova remnants show non-thermal (non-plerionic) emission in the X-ray band. New synchrotron models, realized as SRESC and SRCUT in XSPEC 11, which use the radio spectral index and flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kristy Dyer , Stephen Reynolds , Kazik Borkowski , Rob Petre

In the present paper we construct a self-consistent theory, interpreting the observational properties of RBS1774. It is well known that the distribution function of relativistic particles is one-dimensional at the pulsar surface. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nino Chkheidze

{We simulate the evolution of relativistic electrons injected into the intracluster medium by five radio galaxies. We study the spatial transport and the emission properties of the injected radio plasma over a $\sim 5$ Gyr period, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-10 F. Vazza , D. Wittor , M. Brueggen , G. Brunetti

The radiation physics of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains enigmatic. Motivated by the observed narrow-banded emission spectrum and ambiguous fringe pattern of the spectral peak frequency ($\nu_{\rm pk}$) distribution of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Xiao Li , Fen Lyu , Hai Ming Zhang , Can-Min Deng , En-Wei Liang

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

Cosmic ray air showers have been known for over 30 years to emit pulsed radio emission in the frequency range from a few to a few hundred MHz, an effect that offers great opportunities for the study of extensive air showers with upcoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

We compare two temporal properties of classical double radio sources: i) radiative lifetimes of synchrotron-emitting particles and ii) dynamical source ages. We discuss how these can be quite discrepant from one another, rendering use of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine Blundell , Steve Rawlings

We investigate the acceleration and simultaneous radiative losses of electrons in the vicinity of relativistic shocks. Particles undergo pitch angle diffusion, gaining energy as they cross the shock by the Fermi mechanism and also emitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Paul Dempsey , Peter Duffy

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

The high kinetic energy electrons that populate the Earth's radiation belts emit synchrotron emissions because of their interaction with the planetary magnetic field. A lunar near side array would be uniquely positioned to image this…

Multiwavelength observations of blazars such as Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 show that they exhibit strong short time variabilities in flare-like phenomena. Based on the homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and assuming that time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , M. Kusunose

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we…