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    X-ray flares from runaway pair production in active galactic nuclei (1992)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The hard X-ray spectrum of AGNs is nonthermal, probably arising from an electron-positron pair cascade, with some emission reflected off relatively cold matter. There has been interest in models on which protons are accelerated and create relativistic electrons on interaction with a local radiation field. It is shown here that a sufficient column density of protons can lead to runaway pair production: photons generated by the relativistic pairs are the targets for the protons to produce more pairs. This can produce X-ray fluxes with the characteristics observed in AGN. The model predicts the maximum ratio of luminosity to source size as well as their spectrum in the early phases. The same mechanism may also be able to create the knots of synchrotron-radiating pair plasma seen in sources such as 3C273.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 360; 6400; p. 135-137.
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    On the acceleration of charged particles at relativistic shock fronts (1987)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The diffusive acceleration of highly relativistic particles at a shock is reconsidered. Using the same physical assumptions as Blandford and Ostriker (1978), but dropping the restriction to nonrelativistic shock velocities, the authors find approximate solutions of the particle kinetic equation by generalizing the diffusion approximation to higher order terms in the anisotropy of the particle distribution. The general solution of the transport equation on either side of the shock is constructed, which involves the solution of an eigenvalue problem. By matching the two solutions at the shock, the spectral index of the resulting power law is found by taking into account a sufficiently large number of eigenfunctions. Low-order truncation corresponds to the standard diffusion approximation and to a somewhat more general method described by Peacock (1981). In addition to the energy spectrum, the method yields the angular distribution of the particles and its spatial dependence.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 315; 425-433
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    Accreting X-ray pulsar atmospheres heated by Coulomb deceleration of protons (1983)
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Results are presented from detailed self-consistent models of accreting magnetized neutron star atmospheres, heated by the gradual deceleration of infalling protons via Coulomb encounters. The temperature and density gradients are calculated assuming momentum and energy balance, coupled with the radiative transfer for two polarizations. The cyclotron resonance effects were treated approximately. These models are characterized by power-law energy spectra, with single pulses at higher frequencies and multiple pulses at lower ones for some aspect angles, as well as a phase-dependent spectral index.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; vol. 266
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    Cube-Corner Retroreflector Modeling (1982)
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Collection of computer programs analyzes arrays of optical cube corners used in laser ranging. Programs compute impulse-response and interference effects of reflected pulses from optical cube corners and calculates interference-effects histogram and far-field diffraction patterns.
    Keywords: PHYSICAL SCIENCES
    Type: GSC-12718 , NASA Tech Briefs (ISSN 0145-319X); 7; 1; P. 29
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    Self-consistent models for Coulomb-heated X-ray pulsar atmospheres (1984)
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Calculations of accreting magnetized neutron star atmospheres heated by the gradual deceleration of Protons via Coulomb collisions are presented. Self consistent determinations of the temperature and density structure for different accretion rates are made by assuming hydrostatic equilibrium and energy balance, coupled with radiative transfer. The full radiative transfer in two polarizations, using magnetic cross sections but with cyclotron resonance effects treated approximately, is carried out in the inhomogeneous atmospheres. Previously announced in STAR as N84-12012
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 278; 369-381
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    Particle acceleration at shocks - A Monte Carlo method (1987)
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: A Monte Carlo method is presented for the problem of acceleration of test particles at relativistic shocks. The particles are assumed to diffuse in pitch angle as a result of scattering off magnetic irregularities frozen into the fluid. Several tests are performed using the analytic results available for both relativistic and nonrelativistic shock speeds. The acceleration at relativistic shocks under the influence of radiation losses is investigated, including the effects of a momentum dependence in the diffusion coefficient. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the technique in those situations in which the diffusion approximation cannot be employed, such as when relativistic bulk motion is considered, when particles are permitted to escape at the boundaries, and when the effects of the finite length of the particle mean free path are important.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 322; 256-265
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    Cosmic-ray hydrodynamics at relativistic shocks (1988)
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: A test particle description of first-order Fermi acceleration of cosmic rays at plane-parallel relativistic shocks is presented in which the pitch angle distribution is obtained explicitly and used to determine the pressure anisotropy or variable Eddington factor as a function of position. The Eddington factor is in turn used to find the hydrodynamical cosmic-ray sound speed, taking the anisotropy into account. For upstream flows speeds above c/sq rt 3, it is shown that the cosmic-ray sound speed exceeds the shock speed in a region just upstream of the shock and decreases montonically with distance further upstream, reaching the value c/sq rt 3 far from the shock. Thus, the shock succeeds in maintaining an anisotropy in the cosmic-ray distribution which is sufficient to keep the flow subsonic with respect to the cosmic-ray sound speed both downstream and in a finite region upstream. The astrophysical implications of these findings are discussed.
    Keywords: SPACE RADIATION
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 331; 336-342
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