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Particle acceleration in self-driven turbulent reconnection
Jian-Fu Zhang, Siyao Xu, Alex Lazarian +1
The theoretical prediction that magnetic reconnection spontaneously drives turbulence has been supported by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and kinetic simulations. While reconnection wi…
Magnetic reconnection-driven turbulence and turbulent reconnection acceleration
Shiming Liang, Jianfu Zhang, Nana Gao +1
This paper employs an MHD-PIC method to perform numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection-driven turbulence and turbulent reconnection acceleration of particles. Focusing on t…
Studying the properties of compressible MHD turbulence by synchrotron fluctuation statistics
Ru-Yue Wang, Jian-Fu Zhang, Alex Lazarian +2
We study the observable properties of compressible MHD turbulence covering different turbulence regimes, based on synthetic synchrotron observations arising from 3D MHD numerical s…
Measurement of MHD turbulence properties by synchrotron radiation techniques
Jianfu Zhang, Ruyue Wang
It is well-known that magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. The correct understanding of the fundamental properties of MHD turbulence is…
Energetic Particle Acceleration in Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Jianfu Zhang, Fuyuan Xiang
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particl…
Gradient measurement of synchrotron polarization diagnostic: Application to spatially separated emission and Faraday rotation regions
Ru-Yue Wang, Jian-Fu Zhang, Alex Lazarian +2
Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient technique…
Studying the local magnetic field and anisotropy of magnetic turbulence by synchrotron polarization derivative
Jian-Fu Zhang, Ke Hu, Jungyeon Cho +1
Due to the inevitable accumulation of the observed information in the direction of the line of sight, it is difficult to measure the local magnetic field of MHD turbulence. However…
Studying Anisotropy of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence by Synchrotron Polarization Intensity
Ru-Yue Wang, Jian-Fu Zhang, Fu-Yuan Xiang
Based on statistical analysis of synchrotron polarization intensity, we study the anisotropic properties of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. The second-order norm…
Tracing magnetic fields by the synergies of synchrotron emission gradients
Jian-Fu Zhang, Qian Liu, Alex Lazarian
This paper studies how to employ synchrotron emission gradient techniques to reveal the properties of the magnetic field within the interstellar media. Based on data cubes of three…
Tracing Magnetic Field with Synchrotron Polarization Gradients: Parameter Study
Jian-Fu Zhang, Alex Lazarian, Ka Wai Ho +3
We employ synthetic observations obtained with MHD simulations to study how to trace the distribution of turbulent magnetic fields using the synchrotron polarization gradient techn…
Ionisation state of the accretion disc in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34
Ming Lyu, Mariano Mendez, Jian-Fu Zhang +1
We analysed an XMM-Newton plus a simultaneous Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation and a separate Suzaku observation of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34. We fit…
Spectral properties of magnetohydrodnamic turbulence revealed by polarization synchrotron emission with Faraday rotation
Jian-Fu Zhang, Alex Lazarian, Fu-Yuan Xiang
We investigate how to recover the spectral properties of underlying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using fluctuation statistics of synchrotron polarization radiation, based o…
Electron transport with re-acceleration and radiation in the jets of X-ray binaries
Jian-Fu Zhang, Zhi-Ren Li, Fu-Yuan Xiang +1
This paper studies acceleration processes of background thermal electrons in X-ray binary jets via turbulent stochastic interactions and shock collisions. By considering turbulent…
Polarization radiation with turbulent magnetic fields from X-ray binaries
Jian-Fu Zhang, Fu-Yuan Xiang, Ju-Fu Lu
We study the properties of polarized radiation in turbulent magnetic fields from X-ray binary jets. These turbulent magnetic fields are composed of large- and small-scale configura…
Studying Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence with Synchrotron Polarization Dispersion
Jian-Fu Zhang, Alex Lazarian, Hyeseung Lee +1
We test a new technique of studying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence suggested by Lazarian \& Pogosyan, using synthetic synchrotron polarization observations. This paper focuse…
Potential Gamma-ray Emissions from Low-Mass X-ray Binary Jets
Jian-Fu Zhang, Wei-Min Gu, Tong Liu +2
By proposing a pure leptonic radiation model, we study the potential gamma-ray emissions from jets of the low-mass X-ray binaries. In this model, the relativistic electrons that ar…
Broadband Emission Spectra from the Cygnus X-3 Jet in the Soft Spectral State
Jian-Fu Zhang, Ju-Fu Lu
In order to understand the main observational characteristics of the Galactic X-ray binary Cygnus X-3, we propose a radiation model in which high-energy electrons accelerated in th…
Origin of Multi-band Emission from the Microquasar Cygnus X--1
Jianfu Zhang, Bing Xu, Jufu Lu
We study the origin of non-thermal emissions from the Galactic black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X--1 which is a confirmed high mass microquasar. By analogy with those methods used in…
Spectrum of jet emitting disc: Application to microquasar XTE J1118+480
Jian-Fu Zhang, Fu-Guo Xie
Under the framework of the magnetized accretion ejection structures, we analyze the energy balance properties, and study the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the Jet Emittin…