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Multi-wavelength Emission from the Fermi Bubble III. Stochastic (Fermi) Re-Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons Emitted by SNRs
We analyse the model of stochastic re-acceleration of electrons, which are
emitted by supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galactic Disk and propagate then
into the Galactic halo, in order to explain the origin on nonthermal (radio and
gamma-ray) emission from the Fermi Bubbles (FB). We assume that the energy for
re-acceleration in the halo is supplied by shocks generated by processes of
star accretion onto the central black hole. Numerical simulations show that
regions with strong turbulence (places for electron re-acceleration) are
located high up in the Galactic Halo about several kpc above the disk. The
energy of SNR electrons that reach these regions does not exceed several GeV
because of synchrotron and inverse Compton energy losses. At appropriate
parameters of re-acceleration these electrons can be re-accelerated up to the
energy 10E12 eV which explains in this model the origin of the observed radio
and gamma-ray emission from the FB. However although the model gamma-ray
spectrum is consistent with the Fermi results, the model radio spectrum is
steeper than the observed by WMAP and Planck. If adiabatic losses due to plasma
outflow from the Galactic central regions are taken into account, then the
re-acceleration model nicely reproduces the Planck datapoints.Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Ap
Signatures for doubly-charged Higgsinos at colliders
Several supersymmetric models with extended gauge structures predict light
doubly-charged Higgsinos. Their distinctive signature at the large hadron
collider is highlighted by studying their production and decay characteristics.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, Latex. Submitted for SUSY 2008 proceeding
Contiguous 3d and 4f magnetism: towards strongly correlated 3d electrons in YbFe2Al10
We present magnetization, specific heat, and 27Al NMR investigations on
YbFe2Al10 over a wide range in temperature and magnetic field. The magnetic
susceptibility at low temperatures is strongly enhanced at weak magnetic
fields, accompanied by a ln(T0/T) divergence of the low-T specific heat
coefficient in zero field, which indicates a ground state of correlated
electrons. From our hard X-ray photo emission spectroscopy (HAXPES) study, the
Yb valence at 50 K is evaluated to be 2.38. The system displays valence
fluctuating behavior in the low to intermediate temperature range, whereas
above 400 K, Yb3+ carries a full and stable moment, and Fe carries a moment of
about 3.1 mB. The enhanced value of the Sommerfeld Wilson ratio and the dynamic
scaling of spin-lattice relaxation rate divided by T [27(1/T1T)] with static
susceptibility suggests admixed ferromagnetic correlations. 27(1/T1T)
simultaneously tracks the valence fluctuations from the 4f -Yb ions in the high
temperature range and field dependent antiferromagnetic correlations among
partially Kondo screened Fe 3d moments at low temperature, the latter evolve
out of an Yb 4f admixed conduction band.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Particle acceleration and the origin of gamma-ray emission from Fermi Bubbles
Fermi LAT has discovered two extended gamma-ray bubbles above and below the
galactic plane. We propose that their origin is due to the energy release in
the Galactic center (GC) as a result of quasi-periodic star accretion onto the
central black hole. Shocks generated by these processes propagate into the
Galactic halo and accelerate particles there. We show that electrons
accelerated up to ~10 TeV may be responsible for the observed gamma-ray
emission of the bubbles as a result of inverse Compton (IC) scattering on the
relic photons. We also suggest that the Bubble could generate the flux of CR
protons at energies > 10^15 eV because the shocks in the Bubble have much
larger length scales and longer lifetimes in comparison with those in SNRs.
This may explain the the CR spectrum above the knee.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Expanded version of the contribution to the 32nd
ICRC, Beijing, #0589. To appear in the proceeding
Spectrum of Relativistic and Subrelativistic Cosmic Rays in the 100 pc Central Region
From the rate of hydrogen ionization and the gamma ray flux, we derived the
spectrum of relativistic and subrelativistic cosmic rays (CRs) nearby and
inside the molecular cloud Sgr B2 near the Galactic Center (GC). We studied two
cases of CR propagation in molecular clouds: free propagation and scattering of
particles by magnetic fluctuations excited by the neutral gas turbulence. We
showed that in the latter case CR propagation inside the cloud can be described
as diffusion with the coefficient cm s. For
the case of hydrogen ionization by subrelativistic protons, we showed that
their spectrum outside the cloud is quite hard with the spectral index
. The energy density of subrelativistic protons ( eV cm)
is one order of magnitude higher than that of relativistic CRs. These protons
generate the 6.4 keV emission from Sgr B2, which was about 30\% of the flux
observed by Suzaku in 2013. Future observations for the period after 2013 may
discover the background flux generated by subrelativistic CRs in Sgr B2.
Alternatively hydrogen ionization of the molecular gas in Sgr B2 may be caused
by high energy electrons. We showed that the spectrum of electron
bremsstrahlung is harder than the observed continuum from Sgr B2, and in
principle this X-ray component provided by electrons could be seen from the
INTEGRAL data as a stationary high energy excess above the observed spectrum
.Comment: 42 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Ap
Measurement Invariance of the Internet Addiction Test Among Hong Kong, Japanese, and Malaysian Adolescents
There has been increased research examining the psychometric properties on the Internet Addiction Test across different ages and populations. This population-based study examined the psychometric properties using Confirmatory Factory Analysis and measurement invariance using Item Response Theory (IRT) of the IAT in adolescents from three Asian countries. In the Asian Adolescent Risk Behavior Survey (AARBS), 2,535 secondary school students (55.91% girls) in Grade 7 to Grade 13 (Mean age = 15.61 years; SD=1.56) from Hong Kong (n=844), Japan (n=744), and Malaysia (n=947) completed a survey on their Internet use that incorporated the IAT scale. A nested hierarchy of hypotheses concerning IAT cross-country invariance was tested using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. Replicating past finding in Hong Kong adolescents, the construct of IAT is best represented by a second-order three-factor structure in Malaysian and Japanese adolescents. Configural, metric, scalar, and partial strict factorial invariance was established across the three samples. No cross-country differences on Internet addiction were detected at latent mean level. This study provided empirical support to the IAT as a reliable and factorially stable instrument, and valid to be used across Asian adolescent populations
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