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arXiv:1803.01531 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 5 Mar 2018]

Title:Synchrotron Polarization of Relativistic Thermal Electrons

Authors:Jirong Mao, Jiancheng Wang (YNAO)
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Abstract:Relativistic electrons accelerated by both the first-order and the second-order Fermi accelerations in some synchrotron sources have a hybrid shape of thermal and nonthermal energy distribution. This particle acceleration result is supported by some recent numerical simulations. We calculate the synchrotron polarization by applying this electron energy distribution. The polarization degrees in the cases of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are given as examples. The possible application for the polarization study of Sgr A* is also mentioned. We finally suggest high-energy polarization measurements for these synchrotron sources to test our results.
Comments: ApJ accepted
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Cite as: arXiv:1803.01531 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:1803.01531v1 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1803.01531
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa96c

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From: Jirong Mao [view email]
[v1] Mon, 5 Mar 2018 07:38:37 UTC (215 KB)
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