Simulation of Shock-Shock interaction in parsec-scale jets
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-03 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
The analysis of the radio light curves of the blazar CTA102 during its 2006 flare revealed a possible interaction between a standing shock wave and a traveling one. In order to better understand this highly non-linear process, we used a relativistic hydrodynamic code to simulate the high energy interaction and its related emission. The calculated synchrotron emission from these simulations showed an increase in turnover flux density, , and turnover frequency, , during the interaction and decrease to its initial values after the passage of the traveling shock wave.
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@article{arxiv.1111.4844,
title = {Simulation of Shock-Shock interaction in parsec-scale jets},
author = {Christian M. Fromm and Manel Perucho and Eduardo Ros and Petar Mimica and Tuomas Savolainen and Andrei P. Lobanov and J. Anton Zensus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4844},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the meeting "HEPRO III: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows" (Barcelona, June 2011)