A fully kinetic model for orphan gamma-ray flares in blazars
A fully kinetic model for orphan gamma-ray flares in blazars
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耀变体中孤儿伽马射线耀斑的全动力学模型
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stab562
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Sironi, Lorenzo
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作者:
Sobacchi, Emanuele;Nättilä, Joonas;Sironi, Lorenzo
Blazars emit a highly variable non-thermal spectrum. It is usually assumed that the same non-thermal electrons are responsible for the IR-optical-UV emission (via synchrotron) and the gamma-ray emission (via inverse Compton). Hence, the light curves in the two bands should be correlated. Orphan gamma-ray flares (i.e. lacking a luminous low-frequency counterpart) challenge our theoretical understanding of blazars. By means of large-scale two-dimensional radiative particle-in-cell simulations, we show that orphan gamma-ray flares may be a self-consistent by-product of particle energization in turbulent magnetically dominated pair plasmas. The energized particles produce the gamma-ray flare by inverse Compton scattering an external radiation field, while the synchrotron luminosity is heavily suppressed since the particles are accelerated nearly along the direction of the local magnetic field. The ratio of inverse Compton to synchrotron luminosity is sensitive to the initial strength of turbulent fluctuations (a larger degree of turbulent fluctuations weakens the anisotropy of the energized particles, thus increasing the synchrotron luminosity). Our results show that the anisotropy of the non-thermal particle population is key to modelling the blazar emission.
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
I. Christie;M. Petropoulou;L. Sironi;D. Giannios
通讯作者:
I. Christie;M. Petropoulou;L. Sironi;D. Giannios
DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c33
发表时间:
2019-09
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
L. Comisso;L. Sironi
通讯作者:
L. Comisso;L. Sironi
DOI:
10.3847/2041-8213/ab93dc
发表时间:
2020-04
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
影响因子:
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作者:
L. Comisso;E. Sobacchi;L. Sironi
通讯作者:
L. Comisso;E. Sobacchi;L. Sironi
DOI:
10.1063/1.2141897
发表时间:
2005
期刊:
arXiv: Astrophysics
影响因子:
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作者:
A. Spitkovsky
通讯作者:
A. Spitkovsky
DOI:
10.3847/2041-8213/abd9bc
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
Sironi, Lorenzo;Rowan, Michael E.;Narayan, Ramesh
通讯作者:
Narayan, Ramesh