Transporte de energía en fuentes gamma

L. J. Pellizza, V. M. Douna, S. E. Pedrosa.

Serie: Trabajos publicados del IAR ; no. 1436

Resumen: Gamma-ray emission observed in different astrophysical systems, originates in non-thermal populations of particles (mainly protons and electrons) accelerated to relativistic energies. The understanding of how these populations and the emitted radiation gain, transport and lose energy through interactions within the system or in their journey to the observer, is important for the assessment of the nature of -ray sources. As the agents of these interactions are radiation, matter, and magnetic fields, it also serves as a means to investigate the properties of these fields, and to explore the injection of energy from -ray sources into their environment. In the present article, we discuss some topical issues in Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, which can be addressed by the study of the energy transport driven by relativistic particles