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On the generation mechanism of hard cosmic gamma-ray emission from AGN jets

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We consider the mechanism for the generation of high-energy cosmic gamma rays through the inelastic interaction of relativistic protons (due to their velocity dispersion) accelerated by a self-consistent electromagnetic field in an electron-positron jet plasma. The velocity dispersion is explained by the growth of a plasma instability in a relativistic jet.

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  1. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya pl. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia

    V. M. Chechetkin, V. F. D’yachenko, S. L. Ginzburg, V. V. Paleichik & N. N. Fimin

  2. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University), Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    A. L. Sudarikov

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Chechetkin, V.F. D’yachenko, S.L. Ginzburg, V.V. Paleichik, N.N. Fimin, A.L. Sudarikov, 2009, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 546–554.

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Chechetkin, V.M., D’yachenko, V.F., Ginzburg, S.L. et al. On the generation mechanism of hard cosmic gamma-ray emission from AGN jets. Astron. Rep. 53, 501–509 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377290906002X

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