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Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in hotspots of FR II galaxies: The case study 4C74.26

Argentinian Astronomical Society (2016)

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Arabella T Araudo, Anthony R Bell, Katherine M Blundell

Abstract:

It has been suggested that relativistic shocks in extragalactic sources may accelerate the most energetic cosmic rays. However, recent theoretical advances indicating that relativistic shocks are probably unable to accelerate particles to energies much larger than a PeV cast doubt on this. In the present contribution we model the radio to X-ray emission in the southern hotspot of the quasar 4C74.26. The synchrotron radio emission is resolved near the shock with the MERLIN radio-interferometer, and the rapid decay of this emission behind the shock is interpreted as the decay of the downstream magnetic field as expected for small scale turbulence. If our result is confirmed by analyses of other radiogalaxies, it provides firm observational evidence that relativistic shocks at the termination region of powerful jets in FR II radiogalaxies do not accelerate ultra high energy cosmic rays.
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Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in hotspots of FR II galaxies: The case study 4C74.26

(2016)

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Anabella T Araudo, Anthony R Bell, Katherine M Blundell
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Orbital and superorbital variability of LS I +61 303 at low radio frequencies with GMRT and LOFAR

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 456:2 (2016) 1791-1802

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B Marcote, M Ribó, JM Paredes, CH Ishwara-Chandra, JD Swinbank, JW Broderick, S Markoff, R Fender, RAMJ Wijers, GG Pooley, AJ Stewart, ME Bell, RP Breton, D Carbone, S Corbel, J Eislöffel, H Falcke, J-M Grie smeier, M Kuniyoshi, M Pietka, A Rowlinson, M Serylak, AJ van der Horst, J van Leeuwen, MW Wise, P Zarka
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Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational wave source GW150914

(2016)

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SJ Smartt, KC Chambers, KW Smith, ME Huber, DR Young, E Cappellaro, DE Wright, M Coughlin, ASB Schultz, L Denneau, H Flewelling, A Heinze, EA Magnier, N Primak, A Rest, A Sherstyuk, B Stalder, CW Stubbs, J Tonry, C Waters, M Willman, JP Anderson, C Baltay, MT Botticella, H Campbell, M Dennefeld, T-W Chen, M Della Valle, N Elias-Rosa, M Fraser, C Inserra, E Kankare, R Kotak, T Kupfer, J Harmanen, L Galbany, A Gal-Yam, L Le Guillou, JD Lyman, K Maguire, A Mitra, M Nicholl, FE Olivares, D Rabinowitz, A Razza, J Sollerman, M Smith, G Terreran, S Valenti, B Gibson, T Goggia
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Rapid and Bright Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

(2016)

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Imre Bartos, Bence Kocsis, Zoltán Haiman, Szabolcs Márka
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