GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.3390/galaxies12010002
Wenjing Dong, Qian Dong, Yonggang Zheng
{"title":"A Lepton–Hadron Model for the Multi-Wavelength Emission from Extreme High-Frequency Peaked BL Lacertae 1ES 1218+304","authors":"Wenjing Dong, Qian Dong, Yonggang Zheng","doi":"10.3390/galaxies12010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies12010002","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a lepton–hadron model for the possible origin of hard very high energy (VHE) spectra from a distant blazar. The model includes synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) and hadronic components. The lepton components include synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering of relativistic electrons. For the hadronic components, we consider proton synchrotron radiation and investigate the interaction of protons with the synchrotron emission soft photons or cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. Upon adopting the parametrization of the observed spectrum of 1ES 1218+304, we obtain the following results: (1) the model is able to match the spectral energy distribution of 1ES 1218+304; (2) we find that in Ep≈1010∼1017eV, the π0→γ-ray process contributes the majority of the secondary photons; and (3) the interaction of protons with the low-energy photons may occur in or outside the jet.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139143300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.3390/galaxies12010001
Alexander V. Khoperskov, S. Khrapov, Danila S. Sirotin
{"title":"Formation of Transitional cE/UCD Galaxies through Massive/Dwarf Disc Galaxy Mergers","authors":"Alexander V. Khoperskov, S. Khrapov, Danila S. Sirotin","doi":"10.3390/galaxies12010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies12010001","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of the merger of a dwarf disc galaxy with a massive spiral galaxy of the Milky Way type were studied in detail. The remnant of such interaction after numerous crossings of the satellite through the disc of the main galaxy was a compact stellar core, the characteristics of which were close to small compact elliptical galaxies (cEs) or large ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs). Such transitional cE/UCD objects with an effective radius of 100–200 pc arise as a result of stripping the outer layers of the stellar core during the destruction of a dwarf disc galaxy. Numerical models of the satellite before interaction included baryonic matter (stars and gas) and dark mass. We used N-body to describe the dynamics of stars and dark matter, and we used smoothed-particle hydrodynamics to model the gas components of both galaxies. The direct method of calculating the gravitational force between all particles provided a qualitative resolution of spatial structures up to 10 pc. The dwarf galaxy fell onto the gas and stellar discs of the main galaxy almost along a radial trajectory with a large eccentricity. This ensured that the dwarf crossed the disc of the main galaxy at each pericentric approach over a time interval of more than 9 billion years. We varied the gas mass and the initial orbital characteristics of the satellite over a wide range, studying the features of mass loss in the core. The presence of the initial gas component in a dwarf galaxy significantly affects the nature of the formation and evolution of the compact stellar core. The gas-rich satellite gives birth to a more compact elliptical galaxy compared to the merging gas-free dwarf galaxy. The initial gas content in the satellite also affects the internal rotation in the stripped nucleus. The simulated cE/UCD galaxies contained very little gas and dark matter at the end of their evolution.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"11 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139158590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060119
Olga Sil’chenko, A. Moiseev, Alexandrina Smirnova, Roman Uklein
{"title":"S0 Galaxies: Outer Gas Accretion through Tidal Interaction and Minor Merging","authors":"Olga Sil’chenko, A. Moiseev, Alexandrina Smirnova, Roman Uklein","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060119","url":null,"abstract":"To clarify the sources of outer gas accretion onto disk galaxies, we study the vicinity of four interacting galaxy systems in the Hα emission line by using the scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer of the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS. We find perspective accretion flows seen as ionized-gas emission filaments between the galaxies. We discuss the whole kinematics and origin of these flows.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"48 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060117
E. Aguilar-Ruiz, A. Galván-Gámez, N. Fraija
{"title":"Testing a Lepto-Hadronic Two-Zone Model with Extreme High-Synchrotron Peaked BL Lacs and Track-like High-Energy Neutrinos","authors":"E. Aguilar-Ruiz, A. Galván-Gámez, N. Fraija","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060117","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous studies suggest that high-energy (HE) neutrinos and ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays could originate from extremely high-synchrotron peaked (EHSP) BL Lacs, which have been identified as effective particle accelerators. Due to the discovery of HE-neutrinos by the IceCube telescope, these hypotheses may shortly have the opportunity to be tested. In this work, we use a two-zone leptohadronic model to explain the spatial coincidence of three EHSP BL Lac: 1RXS J09462.5+010459, 1ES 1101-232, and 3HSP J095507.9+355101 with the arrival of track-like neutrinos. Our results for 1RXS J09462.5+010459 and 1ES 1101-232 indicate that the model accurately describes the electromagnetic emission and neutrino events without increasing the fluxes in the measured bands. In addition, the X-ray flaring state of 3HSP J095507.9+355101 can be explained by our model, but the measured ultraviolet flux during the neutrino arrival time window cannot be explained. For all cases, the broadband emission and neutrino arrival are better described by hard proton distributions ≈1.5. Finally, the proton luminosity required to explain the neutrino fluxes is slightly higher than the Eddington limit with a photopion efficiency of ≈0.1 for non-flaring state cases. On the other hand, for the flaring state of 3HSP J095507.9+355101, the proton luminosity must be higher than the Eddington limit at least by one order of magnitude, even if the photopion efficiency reaches unity.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"41 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060118
A. Moiseev, A. Smirnova
{"title":"Ionizing Spotlight of Active Galactic Nucleus","authors":"A. Moiseev, A. Smirnova","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060118","url":null,"abstract":"Ionization cones and relativistic jets give us one of the most large-scale example of active galactic nuclei (AGN) influence on the surrounding gas environment in galaxies and beyond. The study of ionization cones makes it possible not only to test the predictions of the unified model of galactic activity, but also to probe galaxy gas environment and trace how the luminosity of the nucleus changes over time (a light echo). In the external galactic or even extragalactic gas ionization cones create Extended Emission-Line Regions (EELRs) which can span distances from several to hundreds kpc away a host galaxy. We review the recent results of studying the gas kinematics and its ionization properties in EELRs with a special attention to search of fading AGN radiation on the time scale few×(104−105) years.The role of modern narrow-band and integral-field surveys in these researches is also considered.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"13 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060116
Abhas Mitra, Krishna Kumar Singh
{"title":"On the Maximum Energy Release from Formation of Static Compact Objects","authors":"Abhas Mitra, Krishna Kumar Singh","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060116","url":null,"abstract":"Type II Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), observed in 1987, released an energy of Q≈3×1053 erg. This huge energy is essentially the magnitude of gravitational potential or self-gravitational energy (PE) of a new born cold neutron star having a gravitational compactness or redshift zb≈0.15. One may wonder what could be the upper limit on the amount of energy that might be released with the formation of a cold Ultra Compact Object (UCO) with an arbitrary high zb. Accordingly, here, for the first time, we obtain an analytical expression for the PE of a homogeneous general relativistic UCO assuming it to be cold and static. It is found that the PE of a homogeneous UCO of mass M may exceed Mc2 and be as large as 1.34 Mc2. This result, though surprising, follows from an exact and correct analytical calculation based on the standard General Theory of Relativity (GTR). Further, UCOs supported by tangential stresses may be inhomogeneous and much more massive than neutron stars with PE ∼ 2.1 Mc2 Thus, in principle, formation of an UCO of a few solar masses (M⊙) might release an energy Q∼1055 erg.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"72 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060115
Eric Steinbring
{"title":"Holographic Quantum-Foam Blurring Is Consistent with Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst GRB221009A","authors":"Eric Steinbring","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060115","url":null,"abstract":"Gamma-ray burst GRB221009A was of unprecedented brightness in the γ-rays and X-rays through to the far ultraviolet, allowing for identification within a host galaxy at redshift z=0.151 by multiple space and ground-based optical/near-infrared telescopes and enabling a first association—via cosmic-ray air-shower events—with a photon of 251 TeV. That is in direct tension with a potentially observable phenomenon of quantum gravity (QG), where spacetime “foaminess” accumulates in wavefronts propagating cosmological distances, and at high-enough energy could render distant yet bright pointlike objects invisible, by effectively spreading their photons out over the whole sky. But this effect would not result in photon loss, so it remains distinct from any absorption by extragalactic background light. A simple multiwavelength average of foam-induced blurring is described, analogous to atmospheric seeing from the ground. When scaled within the fields of view for the Fermi and Swift instruments, it fits all z≤5 GRB angular-resolution data of 10 MeV or any lesser peak energy and can still be consistent with the highest-energy localization of GRB221009A: a limiting bound of about 1 degree is in agreement with a holographic QG-favored formulation.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060113
J. Rayimbaev, N. Juraeva, Malika Khudoyberdiyeva, A. Abdujabbarov, Mardon Abdullaev
{"title":"Quasiperiodic Oscillations and Dynamics of Test Particles around Regular-Kiselev Black Holes","authors":"J. Rayimbaev, N. Juraeva, Malika Khudoyberdiyeva, A. Abdujabbarov, Mardon Abdullaev","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060113","url":null,"abstract":"Testing gravity theories combining (massive and massless) scalar & electrodynamic fields become the most important issue in relativistic astrophysics using data from, black hole observations. In the present work, we first show a spherically symmetric black hole solution in general relativity coupling to generic-type nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) together with the quintessential field. We also obtain possible values for the parameters of the quintessential field and NED charge in the black hole environment for different values of degree of nonlinearity. Also, event horizon properties and scalar invariants of the black hole spacetime are studied. We investigate the equatorial motion of test particles around the regular-Kiselev black holes and study the combined effects of quintessential field and the NED charge of the black hole on particle angular momentum together with its energy at their circular orbits as well as their innermost circular stable orbits (ISCOs) and compared the obtained results with Reissner-Nordström black hole (RN BH) case. Moreover, we study particle oscillations along the orbits above than ISCO and applications to quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) where we obtain constrain values for the quintessential parameter and black hole mass charge parameters using observational QPO data from microquasars.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":"C-34 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139267920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060110
Theodoros Smponias
{"title":"Simulated Radio and Neutrino Imaging of a Microquasar","authors":"Theodoros Smponias","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060110","url":null,"abstract":"Microquasar stellar systems emit electromagnetic radiation and high-energy particles. Thanks to their location within our own galaxy, they can be observed in high detail. Still, many of their inner workings remain elusive; hence, simulations, as the link between observations and theory, are highly useful. In this paper, both high-energy particle and synchrotron radio emissions from simulated microquasar jets are calculated using special relativistic imaging. A finite ray speed imaging algorithm is employed on hydrodynamic simulation data, producing synthetic images seen from a stationary observer. A hydrodynamical model is integrated in the above emission models. Synthetic spectra and maps are then produced that can be compared to observations from detector arrays. As an application, the model synthetically observes microquasars during an episodic ejection at two different spatio-temporal scales: one on the neutrino emission region scale and the other on the synchrotron radio emission scale. The results are compared to the sensitivity of existing detectors.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":" 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135286405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GalaxiesPub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.3390/galaxies11060111
Kenji Tsuji, Tomohiro Ishikawa, Kentaro Komori, Koji Nagano, Yutaro Enomoto, Yuta Michimura, Kurumi Umemura, Ryuma Shimizu, Bin Wu, Shoki Iwaguchi, Yuki Kawasaki, Akira Furusawa, Seiji Kawamura
{"title":"Optimization of Quantum Noise in Space Gravitational-Wave Antenna DECIGO with Optical-Spring Quantum Locking Considering Mixture of Vacuum Fluctuations in Homodyne Detection","authors":"Kenji Tsuji, Tomohiro Ishikawa, Kentaro Komori, Koji Nagano, Yutaro Enomoto, Yuta Michimura, Kurumi Umemura, Ryuma Shimizu, Bin Wu, Shoki Iwaguchi, Yuki Kawasaki, Akira Furusawa, Seiji Kawamura","doi":"10.3390/galaxies11060111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11060111","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum locking using optical spring and homodyne detection has been devised to reduce the quantum noise that limits the sensitivity of the DECIGO, a space-based gravitational-wave antenna in the frequency band around 0.1 Hz for the detection of primordial gravitational waves. The reduction in the upper limit of energy density ΩGW from 2×10−15 to 1×10−16, as inferred from recent observations, necessitates improved sensitivity in the DECIGO to meet its primary science goals. To accurately evaluate the effectiveness of this method, this paper considers a detection mechanism that takes into account the influence of vacuum fluctuations on homodyne detection. In addition, an advanced signal processing method is devised to efficiently utilize signals from each photodetector, and design parameters for this configuration are optimized for the quantum noise. Our results show that this method is effective in reducing quantum noise, despite the detrimental impact of vacuum fluctuations on its sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":37570,"journal":{"name":"Galaxies","volume":" 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135290991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}