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We present an ordinary case in the momentum diffusion equation for the electron spectrum evolution and investigate the energy spectra and time dependent properties of flare in Mrk 421 in the frame of a time-dependent one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , J. Li

We study the acceleration of electrons and protons interacting with localized, multiple, small-scale dissipation regions inside an evolving, turbulent active region. The dissipation regions are Unstable Current Sheets (UCS), and in their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Vlahos , H. Isliker , F. Lepreti

We investigate the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray flares of Mrk 421 on 2008 June 6-15 using the synchrotron self- Compton(SSC) model with electron acceleration, in which an evident correlation between the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray bands appears, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Gang Cao , Jiancheng Wang

It is surprising to find a fact for migration in the peak positions of synchrotron spectra energy distribution component during in the activity epochs of Mrk 421, accompanying with an orphan flaring at the X-ray and GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Y. G. Zheng , C. Y. Yang , Shi-Ju Kang , J. M. Bai

We present a time-dependent multi-zone code for simulating the variability of Synchrotron-Self Compton (SSC) sources. The code adopts a multi-zone pipe geometry for the emission region, appropriate for simulating emission from a standing or…

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

In this work we investigate the nature of multi-wavelength variability of blazars from a purely numerical approach. We use a time-dependent one-zone leptonic blazar emission model to simulate multi-wavelength variability by introducing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Hannes Thiersen , Michael Zacharias , Markus Böttcher

A time-dependent Synchrotron Self Compton model (SSC) which is able to motivate the used electron spectra of many SSC models as a balance of acceleration and radiative losses is introduced. Using stochastic acceleration as well as Fermi-I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-02 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

Stochastic acceleration of $^3$He and $^4$He from a thermal background by parallel propagating turbulent plasma waves with a single power-law spectrum of the wavenumber is studied. In the model, both ions interact with several resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Siming Liu , Vahé Petrosian , Glenn M. Mason

Despite significant progress over more than 100 years, no accelerator has been unambiguously identified as the source of the locally measured flux of cosmic rays. High-energy electrons and positrons are of particular importance in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-30 Philipp Mertsch

Stochastic particle acceleration in turbulent plasmas plays a key role in shaping high-energy emission from relativistic outflows, such as those in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and microquasars. While traditional Fermi-II models provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Anton Dmytriiev , Frans van der Merwe , Markus Böttcher

A model detector undergoing constant, infinite-duration acceleration converges to an equilibrium state described by the Hawking-Unruh temperature $T_a=(a/2\pi)(\hbar/c)$. To relate this prediction to experimental observables, a point-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun , G. Torrieri , H. Truran

We investigate a dynamical system consisting of $N$ particles moving on a $d$-dimensional torus under the action of an electric field $E$ with a Gaussian thermostat to keep the total energy constant. The particles are also subject to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Federico Bonetto , Nikolai Chernov , Alexey Korepanov , Joel Lebowitz

Shock acceleration is considered one of the most important mechanisms for the acceleration of astrophysical energetic particles. In this work, we calculate the trajectories of a large number of test charged particles accurately in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 F. -J. Kong , G. Qin , S. -S. Wu , L. -H. Zhang , H. -N. Wang , T. Chen , P. Sun

Blazars emit non-thermal radiation in all frequency bands from radio to \gamma-rays. Additionally, they often exhibit rapid flaring events at all frequencies with doubling time scale of the TeV and X-ray flux on the order of minutes, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

Most theoretical investigations of particle acceleration during solar flares cannot be applied to observations for detailed study of the time evolution. We propose a phenomenological model for turbulence evolution and stochastic particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher

Observations of minute-scale flares in TeV Blazars place constraints on particle acceleration mechanisms in those objects. The implications for a variety of radiation mechanisms have been addressed in the literature; in this paper we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joni Tammi , Peter Duffy

The broadband SEDs of blazars show two distinct components which in leptonic models are associated with synchrotron and SSC emission of highly relativistic electrons. In some sources the SSC component dominates the synchrotron peak by one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-17 M. Zacharias , R. Schlickeiser

The mechanism of stochastic electron acceleration in colliding laser waves is investigated by employing proper canonical variables and effective time, such that the new Hamiltonian becomes time independent when the perturbative (weaker)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Yanzeng Zhang , Sergei Krasheninnikov

The recent detection of high energy gamma-rays coming from supernova remnants and active galactic nuclei has revived interest in the diffusive shock acceleration of electrons. In the present paper we examine the basis of the so-called…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luke O'C Drury , Peter Duffy , David Eichler , Apostolos Mastichiadis