Friday, October 12, 2012

1210.3057 (Anabella T. Araudo et al.)

Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet stars interacting with AGN jets    [PDF]

Anabella T. Araudo, Valenti Bosch-Ramon, Gustavo E. Romero
Dense populations of stars surround the nuclear regions of galaxies. In this work, we study the interaction of a WR star with relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei. A bow-shaped double-shock structure will form as a consequence of the interaction of the jet and the wind of the star. Particles can be accelerated up to relativistic energies in these shocks and emit high-energy radiation. We compute the produced gamma-ray emission obtaining that this radiation may be significant. This emission is expected to be particularly relevant for nearby non-blazar sources.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3057

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