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Nonlinear Compton scattering is the process of emission of a single photon by a charge driven by an intense laser field. Here, we study the infrared behavior of the photon yield emitted via nonlinear Compton scattering. We first consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Antonino Di Piazza , Giulio Audagnotto

We introduce a stochastic multi-photon dynamics on reciprocal space. Assuming isotropy, we derive the diffusion limit for a tagged photon to be a nonlinear Markov process on frequency. The nonlinearity stems from the stimulated emission. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-18 Guilherme Eduardo Freire Oliveira , Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts

Results of a leptonic jet model for the prompt emission and early afterglows of GRBs are presented. The synchrotron component is modeled with the canonical Band spectrum and the synchrotron self-Compton component is calculated from the…

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

I explore the observational appearance of the photosphere of an ultrarelativistic flow with internal dissipation of energy (``dissipative'' GRB models). As a case study, I use the magnetic reconnection model (AC model) that makes robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Giannios

We have developed a numerical model for the temporal evolution of particle and photon spectra resulting from nonthermal processes at the shock fronts formed in merging clusters of galaxies. Fermi acceleration is approximated by injecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert C. Berrington , Charles D. Dermer

The backward Compton scattering is a basic process at future higher energy photon colliders. To obtain a high probability of e->gamma conversion the density of laser photons in the conversion region should be so high that simultaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Galynskii , E. Kuraev , M. Levchuk , V. Telnov

Colliding winds of massive star binary systems are considered as potential sites of non-thermal high-energy photon production. This is motivated merely by the detection of synchrotron radio emission from the expected colliding wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Reimer , M. Pohl , O. Reimer

The spectral shape of radiation due to Inverse Compton Scattering is analyzed, in the Thomson and the Klein-Nishina regime, for electron distributions with exponential cut-off. We derive analytical, asymptotic expressions for the spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Lefa , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

The problem of the anisotropic Inverse Compton scattering between a monochromatic photon beam and relativistic electrons is revisited and formally solved without approximations. Solutions are given for the single scattering with an electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Brunetti

We present a complete set of diagnostic tools aimed at reproducing synthetic non-thermal (synchrotron and/or Inverse Compton, IC) emissivity, integrated flux energy, polarization and spectral index simulated maps in comparison to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Delia Volpi , Luca Del Zanna , Elena Amato , Niccolo Bucciantini

We revisit the description of inverse Compton scattering sources and the photon beams generated therein, emphasizing the behavior of their phase space density distributions and how they depend upon those of the two colliding beams of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 C. Curatolo , I. Drebot , V. Petrillo , L. Serafini

We extend de concept of Compton scattering to the case of plasmons. This concept was originally applied to electrons in vacuum. Here, we consider electrons in a plasma, and study the scattering properties of photon-plasmon interactions. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 José Tito Mendonça , Fernando Haas

The frequency distribution of photons in frequency that results from single Compton scattering of monochromatic radiation on thermal electrons is derived in the mildly relativistic limit. Algebraic expressions are given for (1) the photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev

The total luminosity and spectral shape of the non-thermal emission produced by cosmic rays depends on their interstellar environment, a dependence that gives rise to correlations between galaxies' bulk properties -- star formation rate,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Matt A. Roth , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Todd A. Thompson

Based upon the rate equations for the photon distribution function obtained in the previous paper, we study the inverse Compton scattering process for high-energy nonthermal electrons. Assuming the power-law electron distribution, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Satoshi Nozawa , Yasuharu Kohyama , Naoki Itoh

Emergent model spectra of neutron star atmospheres are widely used to fit the observed soft X-ray spectra of different types of isolated neutron stars. We investigate the effect of Compton scattering on the emergent spectra of hot (T_eff >…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Suleimanov , K. Werner

We describe upgrades to a numerical code which computes synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from relativistic plasma including full polarization. The introduced upgrades concern scattering kernel which is now capable of scattering the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 M. Moscibrodzka

X-ray spectra of nonmagnetic cataclysmic variables (nmCVs) in the ~ 0.3$-$15 keV energy band have been described either by one or several optically thin thermal plasma components, or by cooling flow models. We tested if the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-11 T. Maiolino , L. Titarchuk , F. D'Amico , Z. Q. Cheng , W. Wang , M. Orlandini , Filippo Frontera

By applying a method of virtual quanta we derive formulae for relativistic non-thermal bremsstrahlung radiation from relativistic electrons as well as from protons and heavier particles with power-law momentum distribution $N(p)dp = k…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 Vladimir Zeković , Bojan Arbutina , Aleksandra Dobardzić , Marko Pavlović

Nonlinear phenomena of lepton-photon interactions in external backgrounds with a generalised periodic plane-wave geometry are studied. We discuss nonlinear Compton scattering in head-on lepton-photon collisions extended properly to beyond…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-09 Ibrahim Akal , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick