{"title":"On the simultaneous generation of radio and soft X-ray emission by AXP 4U 0142+61","authors":"Z. Osmanov","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2021.68.1-114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2021.68.1-114","url":null,"abstract":"In the present paper we study the possibility of a simultaneous generation of radio waves and soft X-rays by means of the quasi-linear diffusion (QLD) in the anomalous pulsar AXP 4U 0142+61. Considering the magnetosphere composed of the so-called beam component and the plasma component respectively, we argue that the frozen-in condition will inevitably lead to the generation of the unstable cyclotron waves. These waves, via the QLD, will in turn influence the particle distribution function, leading to certain values of the pitch angles, thus to an efficient synchrotron mechanism, producing soft X-ray photons. We show that for physically reasonable parameters of magnetospheric plasma, the QLD can provide generation of radio waves in the following interval 40 MHz - 111 MHz connected to soft X-rays for the domain 0.3 keV - 1.4 keV.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125262229","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}
Tahere Parto, Shahrzad Dehghani, A. Javadi, E. Saremi, J. V. Loon, H. Khosroshahi, M. Mirtorabi, Hedieh Abdollahi, Mahtab Gholami, S. Hashemi, M. Navabi, Majedeh Noori, Sima T. Aghdam, M. Torki, Mahshid Vafaeizade
{"title":"INT monitoring survey of Local Group dwarf galaxies: star formation history and chemical enrichment","authors":"Tahere Parto, Shahrzad Dehghani, A. Javadi, E. Saremi, J. V. Loon, H. Khosroshahi, M. Mirtorabi, Hedieh Abdollahi, Mahtab Gholami, S. Hashemi, M. Navabi, Majedeh Noori, Sima T. Aghdam, M. Torki, Mahshid Vafaeizade","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2020.67.2-232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2020.67.2-232","url":null,"abstract":"The Local Group (LG) hosts many dwarf galaxies with diverse physical characteristics in terms of morphology, mass, star formation, and metallicity. To this end, LG can offer a unique site to tackle questions about the formation and evolution of galaxies by providing detailed information. While large telescopes are often the first choices for such studies, small telescope surveys that perform dedicated observations are still important, particularly in studying bright objects in the nearby universe. In this regard, we conducted a nine-epoch survey of 55 dwarf galaxies called the \"Local Group dwarf galaxies survey\" using the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) in the La Palma to identify Long-Period Variable (LPV) stars, namely Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) and Red Super Giant (RSG) stars. AGB stars formed at different times and studying their radial distribution and mass-loss rate can shed light on the structure formation in galaxies. To further investigate the evolutionary path of these galaxies, we construct their star formation history (SFH) using the LPV stars, which are at the final stages of their evolution and therefore experience brightness fluctuations on the timescales between hundred to thousand days. In this paper, we present some of the results of the Local Group dwarf galaxies survey.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122325829","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}
{"title":"AGN Activity in Brigtest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs)","authors":"S. Fi̇şek, S. Alis, E. K. Ulgen, F. K. Yelkenci","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-153","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of our study is to classify the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG), which are the brightest and most massive galaxies in the universe and to determine fraction of BCGs showing AGN activity. Within the scope of the study, we combine BCGs from galaxy cluster catalogs which presented by Hao et al. (2010) and Wen et al. (2009) constructed from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) data and BCGs identified from CFHTLS (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey) Deep fields (Alis, 2009). Our combined sample contains 42490 BCGs. We determine activity types of BCGs by means of BPT diagrams and WISE color-color diagrams. 140 BCGs show AGN activity out of 42490. In addition, we calculated star formation rates (SFR) by using Hα emission lines for 5569 BCGs with suitable spectral data and investigated the correlation between SFR and redshift.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115946510","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}
A. Mickaelian, H. Abrahamyan, G. Paronyan, G. Mikayelyan, M. Gyulzadyan
{"title":"Studies of Active Galaxies in Byurakan: Recent Results","authors":"A. Mickaelian, H. Abrahamyan, G. Paronyan, G. Mikayelyan, M. Gyulzadyan","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-173","url":null,"abstract":"We present the recent results of studies on active galaxies (both AGN and Starbursts) by the Extragalactic group of Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) Research Department “Astronomical Surveys”. The research has been carried out in 2017-2019 and the results are published in 2018-2019. These studies are characterized by multiwavelength approach to statistical analysis of large amount of data obtained in different wavelengths; from X-ray to radio. Results on HRC/BHRC sample objects (optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources), studies of Markarian galaxies in UV and multiwavelength SEDs, abundance and star formation determinations in Mrk galaxies from SDSS spectra, revised optical classification of “LINERs”, study and classification of SDSS spectra for Byurakan-IRAS Galaxies, summary of observations and study of Byurakan-IRAS Galaxies (BIG objects), discovery of new bright ULIRGs from the IRAS PSC/FSC Combined Catalogue and their spectral classification, radio variable sources at 1400 MHz and their optical variability, classification of BZCAT objects having uncertain types (BZU objects), and optical variability of blazars are presented.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125252390","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}
{"title":"Water Ice in AGN and Starbursts","authors":"A. Yeghikyan, A. Samsonyan","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.2-143","url":null,"abstract":"Complex chemical species are easier formed in a solid phase, for example in a mixture of ices of water, carbon oxides, methane, ammonia, methanole and other, less abundant molecules. Ultraviolet photons in the range 5 - 13.6 eV and the charged particles with MeV-GeV energies serve as an energy source of reactions. Icy particles containing mentioned substances, can exist only in internal areas of the interstellar molecular clouds protected from influence of external ultraviolet radiation. However cosmic rays are capable to penetrate in clouds and to cause an irradiation of ices by means of secondary ultra-violet photons necessary for initiation of chemical reactions of complexisation. In this work a survivability of ices under harsh conditions of active galaxies is discussed. Preliminary model calculations show that abundances of ices depend not only on ionization parameters of the clouds but also on the shape of incident radiation that is on presence and level of hard ultraviolet and X-ray radiation. The last circumstance is directly related to the radiation of the accretion disk of galaxies with active nuclei and can be used to classify active galaxies, for example to distinguish starburst galaxies from those with active nuclei.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116320662","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}
{"title":"The Origin of Non-Thermal Emission from FSRQs","authors":"S. Gasparyan","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-94","url":null,"abstract":"The observations of astrophysical sources in a large frequency range (from radio to very high energy gamma-ray bands) provide complete information on the non-thermal processes taking place in different objects. Here, the origin of broadband emission from the jets of at-spectrum radio quasars are discussed. For the current study the blazars detected above 100 GeV: PKS 1441+25, 3C 279, PKS 1222+216, PKS 1510-089, as well as CTA 102, which was in flaring state in optcal/UV, X-ray and high energy gamma-ray bands, are selected. The publicly available data of Fermi LAT, Swift UVOT/XRT, Nustar telescopes have been analyzed, which enables to identify the prominent flaring and quiescent states for those sources, as well as, study the spectral properties, constrain the size and location of the emitting region.\u0000The multiwavelength emission spectra of those sources, in different states, are modeled, which is crucial for understanding the particle acceleration and emission processes in their jets. For this purpose, a new code that can derive the model free parameters which statistically better describe the observed data is used. It derives the best-fit parameters and their uncertainties through Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of the likelihood distributions. By means of the detailed theoretical modeling of acquired data, it was possible to derive or at least constrain some crucial parameters such as the magnetic field, jet energetic, electron energy density etc.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130066265","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}
{"title":"The role of dipolar magnetic field of AGN in the morphology and evolution of extragalactic radio sources","authors":"R. Andreasyan","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-8","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss a model of formation of extragalactic radio sources when the parent optical galaxy has a large-scale dipolar magnetic field. The study of dynamics of ejected from the central part of optical galaxy clouds of relativistic particles in dipolar magnetic field gives a possibility to explain main morphological features and physical properties of formed extragalactic radio sources. We bring some results of statistical analyses and correlations between physical parameters for a large sample of extragalactic radio sources.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130273064","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}
{"title":"Distribution of Elements Inside Stars","authors":"G. Alecian","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-52","url":null,"abstract":"The chemical composition measured in stellar atmospheres is not necessarily the same as in deeper layers (outside the core). Indeed, for a significant fraction of main-sequence G to B types stars the discrepancies between superficial and internal abundances go from a few percent (for the coldest of these stars) to huge factors (for hot chemically peculiar stars). This is due to atomic diffusion process, which may produces elements segregation at some stages of the stellar evolution.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122105705","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}
{"title":"Integrable systems connected with black holes","authors":"H. Demirchian","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-89","url":null,"abstract":"We studied some important questions in general relativity and mathematical physics mainly related to the two most important solutions of the theory of relativity - gravitational waves and black holes. In particular, the work is related to astrophysical shock waves, gravitational waves, black holes, integrable systems associated with them as well as their quantum equivalents. We studied the effects of null shells on geodesic congruences and suggested a general covariant definition of the gravitational memory effect. Thus, we studied observable effects that astrophysical shock waves can have on test particles after cataclysmic astrophysical events. We studied the geodesics of massive particles in Near Horizon Extremal Myers-Perry (NHEMP) black hole geometries. This is the space-time in the vicinity of the horizon of higher dimensional rotating black holes. Thus, this work can have applications for studying accretions of black holes. The system is also important in mathematical physics as it describes integrable (in special cases superintegrable) system, where the constants of motion are fully studied. On the other hand, the quantum counterparts of this and other integrable systems are studied as well and a new technique is suggested for geometrization of these systems.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124987343","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}
{"title":"TUIMP: The Universe In My Pocket. Free astronomy booklets in all languages","authors":"G. Stasińska","doi":"10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-2019.66.1-66","url":null,"abstract":"TUIMP (www.tuimp.org) is an international project to produce little astronomy booklets. These booklets, folded from just one sheet of paper, can be used in classrooms, at open public conferences, or during visits of observatories and planetariums. They are free to download from the internet, the only thing which is needed is a color printer (in absence of a printer, the booklets can also be directly consulted on line, even with just a mobile phone). The booklets are intended for children from nine years old and for anyone curious of astronomy. They are written in a simple language, amply illustrated, revised and translated by professional astronomers. So far, they are being published in six languages, others languages are to come. Everyone is invited to download the booklets and use them in their outreach activities.","PeriodicalId":412578,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129751513","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}