scholarly journals Theoretical Study of the Effects of Magnetic Field Geometry on the High-Energy Emission of Blazars

Galaxies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manasvita Joshi ◽  
Alan Marscher ◽  
Markus Böttcher
2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (4) ◽  
pp. 6043-6052
Author(s):  
S del Palacio ◽  
F García ◽  
D Altamirano ◽  
R H Barbá ◽  
V Bosch-Ramon ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We conducted an observational campaign towards one of the most massive and luminous colliding wind binaries in the Galaxy, HD 93129A, close to its periastron passage in 2018. During this time the source was predicted to be in its maximum of high-energy emission. Here we present our data analysis from the X-ray satellites Chandra and NuSTAR and the γ-ray satellite AGILE. High-energy emission coincident with HD 93129A was detected in the X-ray band up to ∼18 keV, whereas in the γ-ray band only upper limits were obtained. We interpret the derived fluxes using a non-thermal radiative model for the wind-collision region. We establish a conservative upper limit for the fraction of the wind kinetic power that is converted into relativistic electron acceleration, fNT,e < 0.02. In addition, we set a lower limit for the magnetic field in the wind-collision region as BWCR > 0.3 G. We also argue a putative interpretation of the emission from which we estimate fNT,e ≈ 0.006 and BWCR ≈ 0.5 G. We conclude that multiwavelength, dedicated observing campaigns during carefully selected epochs are a powerful tool for characterizing the relativistic particle content and magnetic field intensity in colliding wind binaries.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
pp. 4659-4712
Author(s):  
K. S. CHENG ◽  
S. F. KO ◽  
H. Y. LIE ◽  
L. ZHANG

There has been much progress in detecting and understanding high-energy (~1 keV–10 GeV) radiation from rotation powered pulsars. Strong evidence indicates that the nonthermal radiation is emitted from the outer magnetosphere. The local properties in the magnetosphere, e.g. retarded relativistic effect, the strength of the magnetic field, radius of curvature, soft photon density, time of flight for photons etc., make the observed light curves and spectra of high energy radiation from pulsars not only depend on pulsar parameters, i.e. the stellar rotation period and the dipole magnetic field, but also depend on the inclination angle and the view angle. Three-dimensional outer magnetospheric models must be used to understand the complicated observed high energy emission morphologies and phase-dependent spectra of pulsars. Some basic properties of pulsars, recent observed results and other pulsar related phenomena are also reviewed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Harding

The large number of ${\it\gamma}$-ray pulsars discovered by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope since its launch in 2008 dwarfs the handful that were previously known. The variety of observed light curves makes possible a tomography of both the ensemble-averaged field structure and the high-energy emission regions of a pulsar magnetosphere. Fitting the ${\it\gamma}$-ray pulsar light curves with model magnetospheres and emission models has revealed that most of the high-energy emission, and the particles acceleration, takes place near or beyond the light cylinder, near the current sheet. As pulsar magnetosphere models become more sophisticated, it is possible to probe magnetic field structure and emission that are self-consistently determined. Light curve modelling will continue to be a powerful tool for constraining the pulsar magnetosphere physics.


1999 ◽  
Vol 514 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kataoka ◽  
J. R. Mattox ◽  
J. Quinn ◽  
H. Kubo ◽  
F. Makino ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 776 (2) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Zhong Fan ◽  
P. H. T. Tam ◽  
Fu-Wen Zhang ◽  
Yun-Feng Liang ◽  
Hao-Ning He ◽  
...  

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