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The second-order Fermi acceleration (Fermi-II) driven by turbulence may be responsible for the electron acceleration in blazar jets. We test this model with time-dependent simulations. The hard electron spectrum predicted by the Fermi-II…

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1ES 1959+650 is one of the most remarkable high-peaked BL Lacertae objects (HBL). In 2002, it exhibited a TeV gamma-ray flare without a similar brightening of the synchrotron component at lower energies. We present the results of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-19 E. Bottacini , M. Böttcher , P. Schady , A. Rau , X. -L. Zhang , M. Ajello , C. Fendt , J. Greiner

A solution is presented for the spectrum of high-energy gamma-ray burst photons confined to a quasi-thermal baryonic photosphere. The solution is valid in the steady-state limit assuming the region under consideration is optically thick to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We present a theoretical study of Compton scattering of X- and $\gamma$-rays by a $K$-shell electron. Special attention is paid to the double-differential cross section and polarization of the scattered photons for linearly polarized…

Pulsar dynamic spectra exhibit high visibility fringes arising from interference between scattered radio waves. These fringes may be random or highly ordered patterns, depending on the nature of the scattering or refraction. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Walker , Dan Stinebring

Hard X-rays and gamma-rays are the most direct signatures of energetic electrons and ions in the sun's atmosphere which is optically thin at these energies and their radiation involves no coherent processes. Being collisional they are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. C. Brown , E. P. Kontar , A. M. Veronig

Gamma-ray luminosities of some quasar-associated blazars imply jet powers reaching values comparable to the accretion power even if assuming very strong Doppler boosting and very high efficiency of gamma-ray production. With much lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Marek Sikora , Mateusz Janiak , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Greg M. Madejski , Rafał Moderski

Solar flare electron acceleration is an extremely efficient process, but the method of acceleration is not well constrained. Two of the essential diagnostics: electron anisotropy (velocity angle to the guiding magnetic field) and the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Eduard P. Kontar

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 frequency component in blazars is thought to be due to inverse Compton scattered radiation. Recent observations by Fermi-LAT are used to evaluate the details of the scattering process. A comparison is made between the usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. -I. Björnsson

Solar flare X-ray spectra are typically dominated by thermal bremsstrahlung emission in the soft X-ray ($\lesssim$10 keV) energy range; for hard X-ray energies ($\gtrsim$30 keV), emission is typically non-thermal from beams of electrons.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 James M. McTiernan , Amir Caspi , Harry P. Warren

The observations of gamma-ray emission from pulsars with the Fermi-LAT detector and the detection of the Crab pulsar with the VERITAS array of Cherenkov telescopes at energies above 100 GeV make it unlikely that curvature radiation is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Nepomuk Otte , Andrew McCann

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the dominant energy release mechanism in solar flares. The standard flare model predicts both downward and upward outflow plasmas with speeds close to the coronal Alfv\'{e}n speed. Yet, spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Hui Tian , Gang Li , Katharine K. Reeves , John C. Raymond , Fan Guo , Wei Liu , Bin Chen , Nicholas A. Murphy

We analyzed changes in the height of the coronal hard X-ray (HXR) source for flares SOL2013-05-13T01:50 and SOL2013-05-13T15:51. Analysis of the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager data revealed the downward motion of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Alexander N. Shabalin , Evgeniia P. Ovchinnikova , Yuri E. Charikov

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{117}, 213201 (2016)] we have determined the angular resolved and the total energy spectrum of a positron produced via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production by a high-energy photon counterpropagating with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 A. Di Piazza

Hard X-ray photons with energies in the range of hundreds of keV typically undergo Compton scattering when they are incident on a detector. In this process, an incident photon deposits a fraction of its energy at the point of incidence and…

The aim of the thesis is the study of properties of solar flares via reconstruction of energy distributions of accelerated/heated electrons, diagnostics of flare plasma based on EUV and X-ray observations, as well as the estimation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Galina G. Motorina

Using an efficient variational exact diagonalization method, we computed the electron removal spectral function within the framework of the Holstein-Hubbard model containing two electrons with opposite spins coupled to dispersive quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 K. Kovač , J. Bonča

Hard X-ray spectra in solar flares provide knowledge of the electron spectrum that results from acceleration and propagation in the solar atmosphere. However, the inference of the electron spectra from solar X-ray spectra is an ill-posed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. P. Kontar , M. Piana , A. M. Massone , A. G. Emslie , J. C. Brown

We explore the observational appearance of the photosphere of an ultrarelativistic flow with internal dissipation of energy as predicted by the magnetic reconnection model. Previous study of the radiative transfer in the photospheric region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Giannios , Henk C. Spruit