Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-09-02
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.409:1120-1126,2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17367.x
We propose a new analytic scaling of the cut-off frequency of synchrotron radiation from active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets that are nonuniformly filled with many filaments. The theoretical upper limit is provided independent of magnetic intensity, spectral index, coherence and correlation length of filamentary turbulence, etc., such that \nu_c\simeq 6\times 10^{20}\delta[(r-1)/r]^{4/3}(b/10^{-4}) Hz, where \delta, r and b are the Doppler beaming factor, shock-compression ratio and energy-density ratio of the perturbed/local mean magnetic field of the filaments, respectively. Combining our results with observational data for 18 extragalactic sources, a constraint on the filament correlation length is found, in order to give the number scaling of filaments. The results suggest that, in particular, the jets of compact BL Lacs possess a large number of filaments with transverse size scale smaller than the emission-region size. The novel concept of the quantization of flowing plasma is suggested.
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