Speaker
Dr
Mukesh Kumar Vyas
(Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Description
We investigate the photon analogue of Fermi acceleration where a photon scatters within the shearing layers of a relativistic plasma and produces power-law-shaped spectra at high energies. It is an alternative to existing explanations of power law spectra such as synchrotron process or inverse Comptonization. Among several potential applications of this phenomenon, I will describe its application to Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) jets where we explain the high energy spectra of the GRB prompt phase. I will briefly touch upon other applications to the work in Active Galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets as well as in accretion discs around black holes.
Primary author
Dr
Mukesh Kumar Vyas
(Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Co-author
Prof.
Asaf Pe'er
(Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
