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Blazar emission is dominated by nonthermal radiation processes that are highly variable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Turbulence, which can be a major source of nonthermal particle acceleration, can widely exist in the blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Haocheng Zhang , Alan Marscher , Fan Guo , Dimitrios Giannios , Xiaocan Li , Michela Negro

Context. The diffusive shock acceleration mechanism has been widely accepted as the acceleration mechanism for galactic cosmic rays. While self-consistent hybrid simulations have shown how power-law spectra are produced, detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Wolff , R. C. Tautz

Context: An electron-positron beam escaping from the magnetospheric vacuum gap of an accreting black hole interacts with recombination-line photons from surrounding gas clouds. Inverse-Compton scattering and subsequent pair production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Christoph Wendel , Josefa Becerra González , David Paneque , Karl Mannheim

We investigate the electron energy distributions (EEDs) and the acceleration processes in the jet of Mrk 421 through fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in different active states in the frame of a one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Dahai Yan , Li Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Zhonghui Fan , Houdun Zeng

In this paper we present a fully selfconsistent SSC model with particle acceleration due to shock and stochastic acceleration (Fermi-I and Fermi-II-Processes respectively) to model the quiescent spectral energy distribution (SED) observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-28 Matthias Weidinger , Michael Rüger , Felix Spanier

Modelling the evolution of a system using stochastic dynamics typically implies a greater subjective uncertainty in the adopted system coordinates as time progresses, and stochastic entropy production has been developed as a measure of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-06 Jonathan Dexter , Ian J. Ford

Stochastic phenomena occurring within charged particle beams can be handled using the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck generalization of the Vlasov equation. In particular, this non-deterministic approach can deal with effects due to Coulomb scattering…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jürgen Struckmeier

Acceleration and transport of high-energy particles and fluid dynamics of atmospheric plasma are interrelated aspects of solar flares. We present here self-consistently combined Fokker-Planck modeling of particles and hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Wei Liu , Vahe Petrosian , John T. Mariska

The broadband emission of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) is well described by non-thermal emissions from accelerated electrons and positrons. However, the standard shock acceleration model of PWNe does not account for the hard spectrum in radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Shuta J. Tanaka , Katsuaki Asano

We introduce a methodology for analysis of multiwavelength data from X-ray selected BL Lac (XBL) objects detected in the TeV regime. By assuming that the radio--through--X-ray flux from XBLs is nonthermal synchrotron radiation emitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

A process-theoretic approach to electrodynamics based on persistent Kac-type stochastic processes is developed. Finite-velocity stochastic propagation is taken as primary, while relativistic wave equations arise as emergent descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Partha Ghose

We use large hybrid (kinetic protons-fluid electrons) simulations to investigate the transport of energetic particles in self-consistent electromagnetic configurations of collisionless shocks. In previous papers of this series, we showed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Stochastic mechanics is based on the hypothesis that all matter is subject to universal modified Brownian motion. In this report, we calculated probability density distributions using concepts of stochastic mechanics independent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Nathaniel A. Lynd

To investigate the efficiency of centrifugal acceleration of particles as a possible mechanism for the generation of ultra-high $\gamma$-ray nonthermal emission from TeV blazars, we study the centrifugal acceleration of electrons by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zaza Osmanov , Andria D. Rogava , Gianluigi Bodo

We introduce and analyse a continuum model for an interacting particle system of Vicsek type. The model is given by a non-linear kinetic partial differential equation (PDE) describing the time-evolution of the density $f_t$, in the single…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Paolo Buttà , Franco Flandoli , Michela Ottobre , Boguslaw Zegarlinski

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

We consider a class of stochastic kinetic equations, depending on two time scale separation parameters $\epsilon$ and $\delta$: the evolution equation contains singular terms with respect to $\epsilon$, and is driven by a fast ergodic…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Shmuel Rakotonirina-Ricquebourg

In the context of modeling spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for blazars, we extend the method that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to include external inverse Compton processes. The model assumes that relativistic electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 N. Sahakyan , D. Bégué , A. Casotto , H. Dereli-Bégué , P. Giommi , S. Gasparyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan , A. Pe'er

We have examined cutoffs and pile-ups due to various processes in the spectra of particles produced by shock acceleration, and found that, even in the absence of energy losses, the shape of the spectrum of accelerated particles at energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks may be very efficient if magnetic scattering is self-generated by the same particles. This nonlinear process adds to the nonlinear modification of the shock due to the dynamical reaction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi