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2004A&A...419..161L - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 419161-166 (2004/5-3)

In situ acceleration in the Galactic Center Arc.

LIEB S., LESCH H. and BIRK G.T.

Abstract (from CDS):

For the nonthermal radio emission of the Galactic Center Arc in situ electron acceleration is imperative. The observed radio spectrum can be modeled by a transport equation for the relativistic electrons which includes particle acceleration by electric fields, momentum diffusion via scattering by magnetohydrodynamical turbulence and energy losses by synchrotron radiation. The accelerating electric fields can be regarded as a natural consequence of multiple reconnection events, caused by the interaction between a molecular cloud and the Arc region. The radio spectrum and even the recently detected 150GHz emission, explicitely originating from the interaction regions of a molecular cloud with the magnetized Arc, can be explained in terms of quasi-monoenergetically distributed relativistic electrons with a typical energy of about 10GeV accelerated in stochastically distributed magnetic reconnection zones.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: center - acceleration of particles - radio continuum: ISM

Simbad objects: 15

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