Non-thermal emission from mildly relativistic dynamical ejecta of neutron star mergers: spectrum and sky image

G Sadeh, N Linder, E Waxman - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Binary neutron star mergers are expected to produce fast dynamical ejecta, with mildly
relativistic velocities extending to β= v/c> 0.6. In a preceding paper, we derived an analytic …

Linearly polarized coherent emission from relativistic magnetized ion-electron shocks

M Iwamoto, Y Matsumoto, T Amano, S Matsukiyo… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient astrophysical phenomena and bright at
radio frequencies. The emission mechanism, however, remains unsolved yet. One scenario …

Multicollision internal shock lepto-hadronic models for energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)

A Rudolph, M Petropoulou, Ž Bošnjak… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
For a subpopulation of energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a moderate baryonic loading
may suffice to power ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Motivated by this, we study …

Modelling kilonova afterglows: Effects of the thermal electron population and interaction with GRB outflows

V Nedora, T Dietrich, M Shibata, M Pohl… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Given an increasing number of gamma-ray bursts accompanied by potential kilonovae,
there is a growing importance to advance modelling of kilonova afterglows. In this work, we …

Synchrotron Break Frequencies of Mildly to Highly Relativistic Outflows Observed Off-axis

G Sadeh - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the synchrotron spectrum produced by mildly to highly relativistic collisionless
shocks. Simple analytic formulae are derived for the break frequencies (peak frequency, self …

Multiwavelength radiation models for low-luminosity GRBs and the implications for UHECRs

A Rudolph, Ž Bošnjak, A Palladino… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We study the prompt phase of low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts (ll-GRBs) as potential
source of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays …

Nonthermal Particle Acceleration at Highly Oblique Nonrelativistic Shocks

N Kumar, B Reville - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The nonthermal acceleration of electrons and ions at an oblique, nonrelativistic shock is
studied using large-scale particle-in-cell simulations in one spatial dimension. Physical …

X-Ray Spectral Analysis of the Jet Termination Shock in Pictor A on Subarcsecond Scales with Chandra

R Thimmappa, J Neilsen, M Ostrowski… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot spots observed at the edges of extended radio lobes in high-power radio galaxies and
quasars mark the position of mildly relativistic termination shock, where the jet bulk kinetic …

Late-time non-thermal emission from mildly relativistic tidal ejecta of compact objects merger

G Sadeh - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mergers of compact objects [binary neutron stars or neutron star-black hole (NSBH)] with a
substantial mass ratio () are expected to produce a mildly relativistic ejecta within from the …

Particle Acceleration by Pickup Process Upstream of Relativistic Shocks

M Iwamoto, T Amano, Y Matsumoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Particle acceleration at magnetized purely perpendicular relativistic shocks in electron–ion
plasmas is studied by means of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Magnetized …