Acceleration to ultrahigh energies in extragalactic jets

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002ppcf...44b...1l&link_type=abstract

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, Volume 44, Issue 12B, pp. 1-9 (2002).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Extragalactic jets are prominent astrophysical objects that are characterized by extended synchrotron emission. In situ acceleration in extragalactic jets cause the non-thermal radio up to x-ray radiation. Hadrons can, in principle, be accelerated up to the highest energies measured for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. In particular, the Centaurus A jet seems to be a plausible source of the highest cosmic ray photons. Magnetic reconnection can locally convert magnetic energy to particle acceleration in field-aligned electric fields. These fields are associated with electric currents by a finite collisionless resistance.

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