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We employ synthetic observations obtained with MHD simulations to study how to trace the distribution of turbulent magnetic fields using the synchrotron polarization gradient techniques suggested by Lazarian \& Yuen (2018). Both synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Bo Yang , Yue Hu

The energetic electromagnetic eruptions observed during the prompt phase of gamma-ray bursts are attributed to synchrotron emissions. The internal shocks moving through the ultrarelativistic jet, which is ejected by an imploding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-22 Gareth C. Murphy , Mark E. Dieckmann , Luke O'C Drury

We obtain a system of exact solutions of the Dirac equation for an electron moving in a constant homogeneous external magnetic field with account of its vacuum magnetic moment and assumed Lorentz invariance violation in the minimal CPT-odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. E. Frolov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, AGNs, and shocks, relativistic plasmas are pervasive and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo J. Bilbao , Thales Silva , Luis O. Silva

The polarized images of a synchrotron emitting ring are studied in the regular Hayward and Bardeen black hole spacetimes. These regular black holes carry a magnetic field in terms of gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Xueyao Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The polarization measurement is an important tool to probe the prompt emission mechanism in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The synchrotron photons can be scattered by cold electrons in the outflow via Compton scattering processes. The observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-19 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Synchrotron emitting bubbles arise when the outflow from a compact relativistic engine, either a Black Hole or a Neutron Star, impacts on the environment. The emission properties of synchrotron radiation are widely used to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 N. Bucciantini

Coincidence scattering of polarized electrons from nuclei with polarization transfer to outgoing nucleons is studied within the context of relativistic mean field theory. Effects introduced by the dynamical enhancement of the lower…

An equation is derived to calculate the dynamics of relativistic magnetized plasma which decelerates by sweeping up matter from the ISM. Reduction to the non-radiative and radiative regimes is demonstrated. The evolving electron momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

Astrophysical plasmas are typically magnetized, with the Larmor radii of the charged particles many orders of magnitude smaller than their collisional mean free paths. The fundamental properties of such plasmas, e.g., conduction and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Komarov , I. Khabibullin , E. Churazov , A. Schekochihin

Non-thermal X-ray emission in some supernova remnants originates from synchrotron radiation of ultra-relativistic particles in turbulent magnetic fields. We address the effect of a random magnetic field on synchrotron emission images and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Andrei M. Bykov , Yury A. Uvarov , Donald C. Ellison

We present a detailed calculation of channeling radiation of planar-channeled positrons from crystal targets in the framework of our approach, which was proposed recently. In contrast to previous calculations of channeling radiation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. F. Boldyshev , M. G. Shatnev

Polarization can serve as a probe of the radiation mechanism and magnetic field (MF) configuration in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the case of constant MF, the synchrotron polarization in the prompt phase of GRBs has been widely studied. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 K. F. Cheng , X. H. Zhao , J. M. Bai

(Abridged) We constrain simulated all-sky maps in total intensity, linear polarization, and rotation measure (RM) by observations. We test a number of large-scale magnetic field configurations and take the properties of the warm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. H. Sun , W. Reich , A. Waelkens , T. Enßlin

Pulsars emit low-frequency radio waves through to high-energy gamma-rays that are generated anywhere from the surface out to the edges of the magnetosphere. Detecting correlated mode changes in the multi-wavelength emission is therefore key…

The Kirchhoff`s law of thermal radiation stating the equivalence of emissivity and absorptivity at the same wavelength, angle, and polarization, has completely constrained emission and absorption processes. Achieving strong nonreciprocal…

The evaluation of the electron-ion bremsstrahlung cross section exact to all orders in the Coulomb potential is computationally expensive due to the appearance of hypergeometric functions. Therefore tabulations are widely used. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Josef Pradler , Lukas Semmelrock

This paper explores the effects of strong magnetic fields on the Compton scattering of relativistic electrons. Recent studies of upscattering and energy loss by relativistic electrons that have used the non-relativistic, magnetic Thomson…

We propose a simple physical picture for the generation of coherent radio emission in the axisymmetric pulsar magnetosphere that is quite different from the canonical paradigm of radio emission coming from the magnetic polar caps. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Ioannis Contopoulos

We consider the polarization behaviour of radio waves propagating through an ultrarelativistic highly magnetized electron-positron plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. The rotation of magnetosphere gives rise to the wave mode coupling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova
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