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Polarization Signatures of Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Shocks in the Blazar Emission Region - I. Force-free Helical Magnetic Fields
Haocheng Zhang, Wei Deng, Hui Li +1
The optical radiation and polarization signatures in blazars are known to be highly variable during flaring activities. It is frequently argued that shocks are the main driver of t…
Efficient Production of High-energy Nonthermal Particles during Magnetic Reconnection in a Magnetically-dominated Ion-Electron Plasma
Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, Hui Li +6
Magnetic reconnection is a leading mechanism for dissipating magnetic energy and accelerating nonthermal particles in Poynting-flux dominated flows. In this letter, we investigate…
Multi-wavelength study of flaring activity in BL Lac object S5 0716+714 during 2015 outburst
Sunil Chandra, Haocheng Zhang, Pankaj Kushwaha +4
We present a detailed investigation of the flaring activity observed from a BL Lac object, S5 0716+714 , during its brightest ever optical state in the second half of January 2015.…
Polarization Swings Reveal Magnetic Energy Dissipation in Blazars
Haocheng Zhang, Xuhui Chen, Markus Boettcher +2
The polarization signatures of the blazar emissions are known to be highly variable. In addition to small fluctuations of the polarization angle around a mean value, sometimes larg…