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The principal paradigm for gamma-ray bursts suggest that the prompt transient gamma-ray signal arises from multiple shocks internal to the relativistic expansion. This paper illustrates some properties of diffusive acceleration at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

We present inferences on the geometry and kinematics of the broad-Hbeta line-emitting region in four active galactic nuclei monitored as a part of the fall 2010 reverberation mapping campaign at MDM Observatory led by the Ohio State…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 C. J. Grier , A. Pancoast , A. J. Barth , M. M. Fausnaugh , B. J. Brewer , T. Treu , B. M. Peterson

I study the location of the $\gamma$-ray emission in blazar jets by creating a Compton-scattering approximation valid for all anisotropic radiation fields in the Thomson through Klein-Nishina regimes, which is highly accurate and can speed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Justin D. Finke

Blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with the relativistic jet closely aligned with the line of sight, dominate the extragalactic sky observed at gamma-ray energies, above 100 MeV. We discuss some of the emission properties of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 F. Tavecchio

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

The source of cosmic gamma-ray bursts (hereafter GRBs) is usually believed to be a stellar mass black hole accreting material from a thick disk. The mechanism for the production of a relativistic wind by such a system is still unknown. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic Daigne , Robert Mochkovitch

In this study, we explore the properties of a non-rotating black hole in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory and investigate the luminosity of the accretion disk surrounding it. We determine all the orbital parameters of particles in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Abdul Jawad

A model-dependent method is proposed to determine the location of the $\gamma$-ray emitting region for a given flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ). In the model, the extra-relativistic electrons are injected at the base of the jet and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Y. G. Zheng , C. Y. Yang , L. Zhang , J. C. Wang

There is a maximum for the gravity of a black hole in the vertical direction in the accretion disc. Outflows may probably be driven from the disc if the radiation flux of the disc is greater than a critical value corresponding to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

A new scheme of hard x-ray or gamma ray light is considered. The excitation of the Langmuir wave in an ultra dense electron beamm via the two-stream instabilities and the interaction of the excited Langmuir wave with the visible light-laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 S. Son

The gamma-ray emission of blazar jets shows a pronounced variability and this feature provides limits to the size and to the speed of the emitting region. We study the gamma-ray variability of bright blazars using data from the first 18…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Sbarrato , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

We simulate Gamma-Ray Bursts arising from internal shocks in relativistic winds, calculate their power density spectrum (PDS), and identify the factors to which the PDS is most sensitive: the wind ejection features, which determine the wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , M. Spada , P. Meszaros

Various theoretical models predict the existence of extended $\gamma$-ray halo around normal galaxies that could be produced by interactions of cosmic rays with the circumgalactic medium or by annihilation or decay of hypothetical dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 M. S. Pshirkov , B. A. Nizamov

We calculate the spectrum of blast wave models of gamma-ray burst sources, for various assumptions about the magnetic field density and the relativistic particle acceleration efficiency. For a range of physically plausible models we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees , H. Papathanassiou

With ten years of operation and an exceptional dataset, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope allows us to unveil the detailed composition of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky above $\rm 100\,MeV$. In this paper, we derive the intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Lea Marcotulli , Mattia Di Mauro , Marco Ajello

The components of blazar jets that emit radiation span a factor of $10^{10}$ in scale. The spatial structure of these emitting regions depends on the observed energy. Photons emitted at different sites cross the lens plane at different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-04 Anna Barnacka , Margaret J. Geller , Ian P. Dell'antonio , Wystan Benbow

Optically thick energy dominated plasma created in the source of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) expands radially with acceleration and forms a shell with constant width measured in the laboratory frame. When strong Lorentz factor gradients are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Ruffini , I. A. Siutsou , G. V. Vereshchagin

We report on the discovery of gamma-ray emission from several globular clusters (GCs), including Terzan 5, the second known gamma-ray GCs. By now, more than a dozen GCs are known to emit gamma-rays of energies above 100 MeV, thus enabling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-07 P. Tam , A. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng

Variable $\gamma$-ray flares upto minute timescales reflect extreme particle acceleration sites. However, for high-redshift blazars, the detection of such rapid variations remains limited by current telescope sensitivities. Gravitationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla , Pranjali Sharma

Gamma-rays are, with antiprotons, a very efficient way to derive upper limits on the density of evaporating black holes. They have been successfully used in the last decades to severely constrain the amount of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Barrau , G. Boudoul , L. Derome