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Spatially resolved radio spectral indices can distinguish compact AGN jets from winds when morphology alone is ambiguous.

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arxiv 2607.02656 v1 pith:N6GWVSHT submitted 2026-07-02 astro-ph.HE

Non-thermal emission in jets and winds: Expected emission and spectral index distributions

M. Meenakshi , D. Mukherjee , G. Bodo , P. Rossi , C. M. Harrison , L. K. Morabito , P. Kharb , S. Silpa This is my paper
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keywords AGN jetsAGN windssynchrotron emissionspectral indexcosmic-ray electronsMach dischotspotcompact radio sources
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This paper tracks how cosmic-ray electrons evolve inside compact AGN jets and winds and shows that the resulting radio spectra carry distinct fingerprints of each outflow. In jets, electrons are repeatedly shocked along the spine and at the hotspot, then mixed into the cocoon by backflows; the spectra are therefore flattest near the hotspot and steepen toward the base. In winds, the dominant acceleration site is the Mach disc; spectra steepen with distance from it, and the steepening is stronger at higher radio frequencies because of radiative losses. Because compact sources often look similar at low resolution, these spatial spectral gradients, when combined with emission morphology, give observers a practical way to decide whether a given source is jet- or wind-driven.

Core claim

When cosmic-ray electrons are evolved self-consistently with shocks, adiabatic losses and radiative cooling, jets produce spectral indices that are flattest near the hotspot (approximately −0.5 to −0.6) and steepen away from it, while winds produce indices that are flattest at the Mach disc and steepen with distance, more strongly at high radio frequency. The Mach disc remains a far more efficient accelerator than the forward shock once a wind has expanded, and the continuous mixing of differently aged electron populations inside cocoons produces signatures that cannot be recovered from instantaneous fluid quantities alone.

What carries the argument

Lagrangian microparticle tracking of cosmic-ray electrons that records successive shock re-accelerations (via a convolution spectral update) together with adiabatic, synchrotron and inverse-Compton losses; the resulting joint spectra and multi-frequency maps are the direct diagnostic.

Load-bearing premise

A fixed fraction of the fluid’s internal energy is permanently assigned to cosmic-ray electrons everywhere in the flow, so all fluxes and spectra scale with that free normalization.

What would settle it

High-resolution multi-frequency maps of compact radio sources that show either no spectral-index gradient from a putative hotspot or Mach disc, or gradients that reverse the predicted direction, would falsify the claimed diagnostic patterns.

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Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper uses the Lagrangian Particle module in PLUTO to evolve cosmic-ray electrons self-consistently with RMHD jets and winds of comparable power and extent. CREs are injected with a steep spectrum, accelerated via a convolution-based DSA update (Eq. 3) that preserves prior shock history, and cooled by adiabatic expansion, synchrotron, and inverse-Compton losses. The central claim is that the resulting multi-frequency emission and spectral-index maps provide diagnostics that distinguish jets from winds when low-resolution morphology is ambiguous: jet spectra are flattest near hotspots (α ≈ −0.5 to −0.6) and steepen into the cocoon, while wind spectra are flattest at the Mach disc and steepen with distance (more strongly at high frequency). Mean indices, SEDs, and a large-scale jet case (J45) support the same picture. The work extends the authors’ earlier post-processed Papers I/II by tracking particle history rather than assuming a fixed power-law spectrum.

Significance. If the reported spectral-index gradients hold under more realistic ISM and absorption physics, they supply a practical, observationally accessible diagnostic for compact radio sources where jet versus wind morphology is ambiguous. The convolution DSA update (Eq. 3), multi-frequency maps across powers and viewing angles (Figs. 7–9, A3, Table 2), and the explicit comparison of Mach-disc versus forward-shock efficiency are concrete, falsifiable predictions that go beyond the instantaneous-fluid approach of Papers I/II. The large-scale J45 run further links the compact results to classical FRII spectral aging. These are useful contributions for interpreting LOFAR/VLASS/SKA and VLBI data of CSS/GPS and wind-candidate sources.

major comments (2)
  1. Sec. 2.1 (after Eq. 3) and the shock criterion: a cell is treated as shocked for DSA only if the relative thermal pressure gradient exceeds 3, and compression ratios >4 (numerical) are forced to q=4.23. The paper states that weaker forward shocks in late-stage winds are therefore not registered (footnote 5; Sec. 3.1). Because the claim that the Mach disc is “significantly more efficient” than the forward shock rests on this selection, a short sensitivity test (or explicit statement of how many wind CREs would be reclassified under a milder threshold) is needed so that the efficiency contrast is not an artifact of the strong-shock cut.
  2. Sec. 4.3 and the diagnostic claim in the Abstract/§4.2: the simulations assume optically thin emission and omit SSA, FFA, and multi-phase ISM. The authors correctly note that SSA optical depth scales roughly as B^(δ+2)/2 and that jets reach higher B than winds, so localized SSA could flatten spectra near hotspots/Mach discs differently. Because the paper’s main selling point is that spectral-index maps diagnose jets versus winds in compact sources (where SSA/FFA are often important), the discussion should either quantify the expected bias on the reported α gradients or clearly bound the frequency/size regime in which the diagnostic remains valid.
minor comments (5)
  1. Table 1 / Sec. 2: injection cadence and pressure/density thresholds for forward-shock CRE injection differ by run; a one-sentence justification (or pointer to the J43 convergence test) would help readers assess robustness.
  2. Figs. 7 and A3: the 1 kpc² SED boxes a,b,c are useful, but the exact mid-point coordinates or a scale bar would make the spatial sampling reproducible.
  3. Sec. 3.3.3 / Table 2: flux-weighted means exclude regions more than 3 dex below the 3 GHz peak and Z below a floor; these cuts should be stated once in the table caption.
  4. Fig. 13 schematic is helpful; ensure the α ranges quoted match the cocoon values in Figs. 7 and A3 for both light and dense winds.
  5. A few typos and spacing issues (e.g., “weinvestigatetheinsituevolution” in the abstract block; occasional missing spaces around units) should be cleaned in production.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: spectral-index gradients are measured outputs of forward Lagrangian CRE evolution, not inputs or fitted quantities; self-citations supply only the independent hydro setups.

full rationale

The paper's central claims (flattest spectral indices near jet hotspots / wind Mach discs, progressive steepening away from those sites, stronger high-frequency steepening in winds) are obtained by injecting CREs with a fixed steep initial spectrum (δ=9), evolving them via the PLUTO LP module (adiabatic + synchrotron + IC losses + DSA convolution at shocks), computing multi-frequency synchrotron maps, and measuring α = log(S2/S1)/log(ν2/ν1) on those maps. Nothing in Eqs. (1)–(3) or the DSA update forces the reported spatial gradients; they emerge from the simulated shock histories and cooling. The fixed fractions f_ε=0.1 and f_N (jet-tracer or 0.1) set absolute normalization and therefore absolute fluxes/SEDs, but cancel in spectral-index ratios, so they do not manufacture the diagnostic patterns. Self-citations to Papers I/II and Mukherjee et al. (2020, 2021) supply the RMHD setups and the LP/DSA numerical machinery; those prior works used fixed power-law spectra or different questions and do not presuppose the present spectral-index maps. No uniqueness theorem, fitted-to-data prediction, or definitional loop is present. Minor self-citation of the series framing is normal and non-load-bearing. Score 1 reflects only that framing citation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

6 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central diagnostic rests on standard DSA and synchrotron physics plus a handful of hand-chosen normalizations and injection rules that set the absolute CRE energy density and the locations of particle injection. No new physical entities are postulated; the free parameters control amplitude and which shocks are counted, but the qualitative spectral gradients survive reasonable variations.

free parameters (6)
  • f_ε (CRE energy fraction) = 0.1
    Fixed at 0.1 everywhere; directly scales all synchrotron fluxes and therefore the relative brightness of cocoon vs spine/Mach disc (Sec. 2.1).
  • f_N (CRE number-density fraction) = tracer or 0.1
    Set to local jet-tracer value inside cocoon and 0.1 in SAM; controls particle number and therefore spectral normalization (Sec. 2.1).
  • initial spectral index δ = 9
    CREs injected with steep power-law δ = 9; subsequent DSA updates depend on this seed (Eq. 1).
  • γ_min, γ_max at injection = (100, 1e6)
    Fixed to (10², 10⁶); sets the energy window that later cooling and acceleration act upon (Sec. 2.1).
  • pressure/density thresholds for forward-shock injection = 4p0 / 2p0 / 1.5p0
    4p0 (jets), 2p0/1.5p0 (winds) plus density cut; determine which ambient cells receive CREs and therefore SAM spectral indices (Sec. 2.1).
  • CRE injection cadence = simulation-dependent
    Every 1–10 steps along axis, every 80–200 steps at forward shock; controls cocoon filling factor and therefore mean indices (footnote 1–2).
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Diffusive shock acceleration produces a power-law spectrum whose index q depends on shock obliquity and compression ratio (Keshet & Waxman 2005; Takamoto & Kirk 2015), with asymptotic q = 4.23 for ultra-relativistic shocks.
    Used to update every shocked CRE spectrum via the convolution in Eq. 3 (Sec. 2.1).
  • domain assumption Synchrotron, inverse-Compton (CMB) and adiabatic losses fully describe CRE energy evolution; no other cooling or re-acceleration channels operate.
    Built into the LP module (Vaidya et al. 2018) and assumed throughout §§3–4.
  • ad hoc to paper A computational cell is shocked for DSA purposes if the relative thermal pressure gradient exceeds 3.
    Explicit numerical threshold stated in Sec. 2.1; weaker shocks are ignored.
  • domain assumption The ambient medium has a random magnetic field correlated on ≤1 kpc scales and the jet/wind carries a purely toroidal field at injection.
    Inherited from Papers I/II and used for all polarization and emissivity calculations.

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The origin of synchrotron emission in compact radio sources associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains poorly understood. In a series of papers, we have examined diagnostic tools to disentangle the dominant underlying processes. In this study, we investigate the in situ evolution of cosmic-ray electrons (CREs) in compact AGN jets and winds, and examine how their evolution shapes the resulting observable radio properties. In jets, CREs experience multiple shock interactions as they propagate along the spine toward the hotspot and flow into the cocoon via backflows. In winds, CREs are predominantly accelerated at the Mach disc, with occasional re-acceleration within turbulent cocoon backflows. The continuous mixing of different CRE populations within the cocoon produces observational signatures that cannot be inferred from instantaneous conditions alone. In all jet simulations, spectral indices are flattest near the hotspot and steepen progressively away from the hotspots. In winds, spectra steepen with increasing distance from the Mach disc, with this trend becoming more pronounced at high radio frequencies due to radiative losses. We find the Mach disc to be a significantly more efficient CRE acceleration site than the forward shock in winds, which weakens as the wind expands to large scales. Since morphology, especially at low resolution, can be ambiguous for compact sources, spatially resolved spectral indices, particularly when combined with emission and polarization signatures, can provide a powerful diagnostic.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.02656 by C. M. Harrison, D. Mukherjee, G. Bodo, L. K. Morabito, M. Meenakshi, P. Kharb, P. Rossi, S. Silpa.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: 𝑌 − 𝑍 slices displaying Logarithmic maximum Lorentz factor for jets and winds of power 1043 erg s−1 (top) and 1044 erg s−1 (bottom). The times of the snapshot correspond to when the jets and winds have reached close to the upper 𝑍-boundary of the simulation box. CREs that have crossed at least one shock are shown. The background displays the logarithmic density, with darker areas indicating lower gas densi… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Sample trajectories of particles launched along the jet (J43) and winds (W43-light/dense). The color indicates the number of shocks (𝑁s) crossed at a given point along the path. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Ns 10 6 10 5 10 4 10 3 10 2 10 1 10 0 d N/N W43-dense W43-light J43 Distribution of shock encounters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of shock crossings (≥ 1) experienced by CREs in jets and winds. Solid lines correspond to the times when the jets/winds reach the top of the simulation domain (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Joint CREs spectrum for selected domains of size 200 pc2 on the𝑌–𝑍 image plane for J43 at 0.8 Myr. Here 𝜒𝑛 represents the number density of CREs for the given value of the Lorentz factor 𝛾𝑒. Coordinates for the midpoints of the domain are listed in the upper right corner of each plot. In each subplot, we indicate the location on the middle panel along the LOS; however, the LOS also traverses the cocoon and… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Joint CREs spectrum for selected domains of size 500 pc2 on the 𝑌 − 𝑍 image plane for W43-light at 2.3 Myr. Coordinates for the midpoints of the domain are listed in the upper right corner of each plot. In each subplot, we indicate the location on the middle panel along the LOS. The dotted spectra indicate the spectrum obtained solely from the cocoon. to ∼ 108 ) than those from the lower cocoon regions ( 𝑓… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Left to right: Logarithmic synchrotron flux (log 𝐼𝜈 [erg s−1 Hz−1 kpc−2 sr−1 ]), at 1.4 GHz; Spectral index maps for 1.4-3 GHz; Spatial radio spectra for 1 kpc × 1 kpc regions 𝑎, 𝑏, and 𝑐 (indicated in the left panels), for both jets and winds. All panels are shown in the 𝑌–𝑍 image plane (𝜃𝐼 = 90◦ ). A larger domain, similar to that used for the winds, is shown for the jets to maintain consistency in the c… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Logarithmic synchrotron flux (log 𝐼𝜈 [erg s−1 Hz−1 kpc−2 sr−1 ]) at 1.4 GHz, and spectral index maps at 45◦ LOS for 1.4-3 GHz. The indices are computed over 100 pc2 regions on the image plane. MNRAS 000, 000–000 (2026) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Flux-integrated radio SEDs from the compact jet and wind simulations presented in this study. For each model, the SED is fitted with a power law over 1.4-10 GHz, depicted using a dashed red line. For J43 (top left), an additional SED is extracted from a region near the jet head (𝑍 ≳ 2 kpc); the corresponding fits are shown with a dashed cyan line [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Logarithmic surface brightness (log 𝐼𝜈 [erg s−1 Hz−1 kpc−2 sr−1 ]) of J45 on an image plane oriented at 𝜃𝐼 = 45◦ . The emission is shown across radio frequencies from 0.15 to 40 GHz at 0.42 Myr. The colorbar range is fixed, and regions with values below the lower limit are excluded. from the cocoon becomes weak at high radio frequencies, making it below the detectable range. At 20 and 40 GHz, the higher e… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Logarithmic surface brightness (log 𝐼𝜈 [erg s−1 Hz−1 kpc−2 sr−1 ]) of J45 on an image plane oriented at 𝜃𝐼 = 45◦ . The emission is shown at different times for a fixed observed frequency of 5 GHz. The colorbar range is fixed, and regions with values below the lower limit are excluded. R1, R2, and R3 are the arc or ring-like features in the jet’s cocoon, and H0 indicates the location of the previous hotspo… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Radio spectral indices for a frequency range of 1.4 - 3 GHz in domains of size 100 pc2 . The values are estimated for regions with an intensity range used in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Schematic diagram illustrating the evolution of a CRE macroparticle in a jet (left) and wind (right). The radio spectra originating from different regions are displayed, as indicated by results from this study. The index range is chosen based on the ranges seen in the cocoon from Figs. 7 and A3. The light winds display steeper indices than the denser winds, and hence the local variations in the wind spect… view at source ↗

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