Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-01-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
3 pages, 2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122
Scientific paper
Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest-energy particles in nature--the ultra-high energy cosmic rays--cannot be confined by the Milky Way's magnetic field, and must originate from sources outside our Galaxy. Here we summarize the themes of our book, "High Energy Radiation from Black Holes: Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos", just published by Princeton University Press. In this book, we develop a mathematical framework that can be used to help establish the nature of gamma-ray sources, to evaluate evidence for cosmic-ray acceleration in blazars, GRBs and microquasars, to decide whether black holes accelerate the ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and to determine whether the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for energy extraction from rotating black holes can explain the differences between gamma-ray blazars and radio-quiet AGNs.
Dermer Charles D.
Menon Govind
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