Astrophysical Evidence of Wakefield Acceleration in Galactic and Extragalactic Jets via Gamma Rays and UHECRs

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Huxtable, Gregory B., Eltawil, Noor, Feng, Wei-Xiang, Wang, Wenhao, Player, Gabriel, Tajima, Toshiki, Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2020
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866908783638216704
author Huxtable, Gregory B.
Eltawil, Noor
Feng, Wei-Xiang
Wang, Wenhao
Player, Gabriel
Tajima, Toshiki
Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
author_facet Huxtable, Gregory B.
Eltawil, Noor
Feng, Wei-Xiang
Wang, Wenhao
Player, Gabriel
Tajima, Toshiki
Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
contents We present six case studies from a broad mass range ($1 - 10^9$ $M_\odot$) of astrophysical objects, each of which exhibit signs of jets and emit intense high energy gamma rays ($>10$ GeV). Many of these objects also emit spatially identifiable ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). In all cases it is found that wakefield acceleration (WFA) explains both the global properties and details. For blazars, we also explain the temporal structure of these signals, which includes neutrinos, and the correlations in their "bursts" and anti-correlation in flux and index. Blazars ($\sim 10^9$ $M_\odot$), radio galaxies ($\sim 10^8\, M_{\odot}$), Seyfert galaxies ($\sim 10^6 \,M_{\odot}$), starburst galaxies ($\sim 10^{3}\, M_{\odot}$), down to microquasars ($1 \sim 10$ $M_\odot$) interestingly exhibit the same physics since the nature of the accretion and acceleration is independent of the mass, aside from maximum values. It is possible to accelerate electrons to energies much greater than $10$ GeV, and protons beyond $10^{20}$ eV with WFA. We compare observational values with theoretical ones to illustrate they are in good agreement. This mechanism is also accompanied by related emissions, such as high-energy pin-pointed neutrinos, time varying radio, optical, and X-ray emissions, opening an opportunity to characterize these astrophysical objects via multi-messenger approaches.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2009_12333
institution arXiv
publishDate 2020
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Astrophysical Evidence of Wakefield Acceleration in Galactic and Extragalactic Jets via Gamma Rays and UHECRs
Huxtable, Gregory B.
Eltawil, Noor
Feng, Wei-Xiang
Wang, Wenhao
Player, Gabriel
Tajima, Toshiki
Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Plasma Physics
We present six case studies from a broad mass range ($1 - 10^9$ $M_\odot$) of astrophysical objects, each of which exhibit signs of jets and emit intense high energy gamma rays ($>10$ GeV). Many of these objects also emit spatially identifiable ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). In all cases it is found that wakefield acceleration (WFA) explains both the global properties and details. For blazars, we also explain the temporal structure of these signals, which includes neutrinos, and the correlations in their "bursts" and anti-correlation in flux and index. Blazars ($\sim 10^9$ $M_\odot$), radio galaxies ($\sim 10^8\, M_{\odot}$), Seyfert galaxies ($\sim 10^6 \,M_{\odot}$), starburst galaxies ($\sim 10^{3}\, M_{\odot}$), down to microquasars ($1 \sim 10$ $M_\odot$) interestingly exhibit the same physics since the nature of the accretion and acceleration is independent of the mass, aside from maximum values. It is possible to accelerate electrons to energies much greater than $10$ GeV, and protons beyond $10^{20}$ eV with WFA. We compare observational values with theoretical ones to illustrate they are in good agreement. This mechanism is also accompanied by related emissions, such as high-energy pin-pointed neutrinos, time varying radio, optical, and X-ray emissions, opening an opportunity to characterize these astrophysical objects via multi-messenger approaches.
title Astrophysical Evidence of Wakefield Acceleration in Galactic and Extragalactic Jets via Gamma Rays and UHECRs
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12333