Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Kavli Affiliate: Grzegorz Madejski | Summary:Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to $sim 1$ TeV. Although the jets are known to be ultimately powered by a supermassive black hole, how the particles are […]


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Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Maria I. Bernardos | Summary: Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to $sim 1$ […]


Continue.. Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Kavli Affiliate: Grzegorz M. Madejski | First 5 Authors: Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Maria I. Bernardos | Summary: Blazars are active galactic nuclei that launch collimated, powerful jets of magnetized relativistic plasma. Their primary jet, whose emission typically spans from low-frequency radio to very high-energy ($gtrsim0.1$ TeV) $gamma$-rays (Blandford […]


Continue.. Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Maria I. Bernardos | Summary: Blazars are active galactic nuclei that launch collimated, powerful jets of magnetized relativistic plasma. Their primary jet, whose emission typically spans from low-frequency radio to very high-energy ($gtrsim0.1$ TeV) $gamma$-rays (Blandford […]


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Categorical and K-theoretic Donaldson-Thomas theory of $mathbbC^3$ (part II)

Kavli Affiliate: Yukinobu Toda | Summary:Quasi-BPS categories appear as summands in semiorthogonal decompositions of DT categories for Hilbert schemes of points in the three dimensional affine space and in the categorical Hall algebra of the two dimensional affine space. In this paper, we prove several properties of quasi-BPS categories analogous to BPS sheaves in cohomological […]


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On Detecting Nearby Nano-Hertz Gravitational Wave Sources via Pulsar Timing Arrays

Kavli Affiliate: Qingjuan Yu | Summary:Massive binary black holes (MBBHs) in nearby galactic centers, if any, may be nano-Hertz gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect. Normally the objective GWs for PTA experiments are approximated as plane waves because its sources are presumably located faraway. For nearby GW sources, however, this […]


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On Detecting Nearby Nano-Hertz Gravitational Wave Sources via Pulsar Timing Arrays

Kavli Affiliate: Qingjuan Yu | First 5 Authors: Xiao Guo, Youjun Lu, Qingjuan Yu, , | Summary: Massive binary black holes (MBBHs) in nearby galactic centers, if any, may be nano-Hertz gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect. Normally the objective GWs for PTA experiments are approximated as plane waves because […]


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