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The main goal of this thesis is to study the physical processes that can produce non-thermal emission at high energies in astrophysical objects capable to accelerate particles up to relativistic velocities. In particular, we have studied…

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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

We present femtoscopic results from hydrodynamics-inspired thermal models with single freeze-out. Non-identical particle femtoscopy is studied and compared to results of identical particle correlations. Special emphasis is put on shifts…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Adam Kisiel

Most of our knowledge of the physical processes in distant plasmas is obtained through measurement of the radiation they produce. Here we provide an overview of the main collisional and radiative processes and examples of diagnostics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Stephen J. Bradshaw , John C. Raymond

There is compelling evidence that at least some clusters of galaxies are powerful sources of non-thermal radiation. In all cases where this radiation has been detected, a general trend is that high energy densities of cosmic rays and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Pasquale Blasi

Correlations between gamma-ray and X-ray spectral properties of pulsars are investigated in order to provide observational hints on physics involved in pulsars' high-energy emissions. Using a sample of 43 pulsars detected in both X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ashwin Aravindaraj , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

A new modeling way of describing the continuous absorption of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in dense partially ionized hydrogen plasma is tested in this work. It is shown that the obtained results give a possibility of calculating spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 A. A. Mihajlov , N M Sakan , V. A. Sreckovic , Y. Vitel

Random nonlinear layered structures have been found to be a useful source of photon pairs with perfectly indistinguishable un-entangled photons emitted into a very narrow spectral range. Localization of the interacting optical fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Jan Perina , Marco Centini , Concita Sibilia , Mario Bertolotti

High-energy astrophysical systems frequently contain collisionless relativistic plasmas that are heated by turbulent cascades and cooled by emission of radiation. Understanding the nature of this radiative turbulence is a frontier of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

Certain soft photon amplitudes which have been recently suggested as alternatives to the usual Low form of the soft photon approximation are studied and it is demonstrated that problems exist in their relation to the corresponding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Welsh , Harold W. Fearing

High energy radiation from nonthermal particles accelerated in relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to be important in many astrophysical systems, ranging from blazar jets and black hole accretion disk coronae to pulsars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Thermodynamic characteristics of the radiation of condensed combustion products presented in the form of agglomerates of metal-oxide nanoparticles demonstrate deviations from the classical Planck's law. We propose to interpret these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 G. S. Dragan , V. V. Kutarov , A. Y. Bekshaev

This paper is the first in a series devoted to the numerical study of nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasma. We start with non-magnetized pair plasmas, where the primary processes are induced (Compton) scattering and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Arka Ghosh , Daniel Kagan , Uri Keshet , Yuri Lyubarsky

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a plasma is reported. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon scattering is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lennart Stenflo , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla

We discuss the origin of thermal and non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters. Specifically, we present some expectations for the non-thermal emission (from radio to gamma ray wavelenghts) expected in a model in which secondary electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Colafrancesco

We present a unified approach which is accurate at all temperatures and densities for calculating the energy loss from a stellar plasma due to the plasma process, the decay of photons and plasmons into neutrino pairs. To allow efficient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Eric Braaten , Daniel Segel

We calculate the rate of the emission of the photons from the QGP. We base on the real-time kinetic approach [1] without an explicit assumption about a complete thermal equilibrium in the emitting system. ( Figures can be obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Makhlin

Starting from a nonequilibrium configuration we analyse the essential role of the direct and the inverse binary and triple interactions in reaching an asymptotic thermal equilibrium in a homogeneous isotropic electron-positron-photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-09-26 A. G. Aksenov , R. Ruffini , G. V. Vereshchagin

We developed a Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate incoherent Thomson scattering spectra in high temperature plasmas. The basic idea is to treat the entire scattering process as the superposition of individual photon-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Kentaro Sakai , Kentaro Tomita , Takeo Hoshi , Ryo Yasuhara

Thermodynamic and spectral properties of a photon gas in $e^+e^-\gamma$ plasmas are studied. The effect of a finite effective mass of a photon, associated with the plasma frequency cutoff, is self-consistently included. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. V. Medvedev