scholarly journals Confinement of relativistic electrons in a magnetic mirror en route to a magnetized relativistic pair plasma

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 092508
Author(s):  
J. von der Linden ◽  
G. Fiksel ◽  
J. Peebles ◽  
M. R. Edwards ◽  
L. Willingale ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 347-347
Author(s):  
A. Marcowith ◽  
G. Henri ◽  
G. Pelletier

Since its launch, CGRO has detected more than 20 γ-ray emitting AGN, most of them associated with powerful, radio-loud, flat-spectrum objects, exhibiting VLBI superluminal motions. In the case of 3C279, the huge value of the apparent luminosity (∼ 1048erg.s−1) and the variability time-scale of a few days (Hartmann et al., 1992) gives a very large compacity lapp ≃ 200, that is, the medium should be completely thick to γ-rays. This contradiction can be explained if the γ-rays originate from a relativistic jet pointing at a small angle with respect to the line of sight (Maraschi et al., 1992). However, the still large value of compacity suggests the existence of an inner, more compact region where pair production can take place efficiently (Henri et al., 1993). This supports the so-called “two-flow” model, where the superluminal motion is attributed to the expansion of a relativistic pair plasma heated by a MHD jet from an accretion disk (Sol et al., 1989). Hence we propose to interpret the spectral break observed in many objects around a few MeV (Lichti et al., 1993) by an opacity effect due to photon-photon absorption by pair production.





2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 125004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Guo ◽  
Jian Zheng ◽  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Ding Li


2002 ◽  
Vol 572 (1) ◽  
pp. L91-L94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Qing Lou


2012 ◽  
Vol 754 (2) ◽  
pp. L33 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Cerutti ◽  
G. R. Werner ◽  
D. A. Uzdensky ◽  
M. C. Begelman


2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Laing ◽  
D. A. Diver


2008 ◽  
Vol 684 (2) ◽  
pp. 1477-1485 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Zenitani ◽  
M. Hesse




1994 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 357-357
Author(s):  
P. Pietrini ◽  
J.H. Krolik

Relativistic pair plasmas are implicated in the physics of the central regions of AGNs, and the observed variability of these sources can be related to the dynamics and changes in structure of these plasmas. To this respect a study of the behaviour of waves to which the pair plasma reacts as a fluid is quite relevant. We analyze the linear response to perturbations of a simple thermal mildly relativistic pair plasma system.



1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (21) ◽  
pp. 3481-3484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric G. Blackman ◽  
George B. Field


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