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An Unexpected Source Of Gamma Rays

MAGIC telescope in La Palma (Canarias). (Credit: MAGIC group)
 
 
An article in Science Daily writes:
An international team of astrophysicists, involving several research groups in Spain, has discovered a source of very high energy gamma rays in the region of the distant galaxies 3C 66A and 3C 66B. This new gamma emission, observed from the MAGIC telescope in La Palma (Canary Islands) is not consistent with what scientists expected to find, and has resulted in them suggesting three hypotheses to explain their origin.
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The first option is that the emission is actually from the quasar 3C 66A, assuming that its active nucleus had different properties to those attributed to it to date, or that this galaxy is not as distant as previously thought.
 
Another possibility, supported by data from the energy spectrum taken by MAGIC, is that the source of gamma rays comes from another far closer galaxy, 3C 66B, about three million light years from Earth. "This galaxy is similar to 3C 66A, but its jet of particles does not point directly towards us," commented Errando.
 
"If confirmed that the 3C 66B galaxy is the source, it would only be the second radio galaxy observed to date (the first was M87) that emits VHE gamma rays, and these types of galaxies would be established as a new source of emission of very high energy gamma rays", SINC was told by Maria Victoria Fonseca, another of the study participants from the High Energy Group at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
 
The third hypothesis is that the astrophysical gamma rays do not originate from 3C 66A or 3C 66B, but rather from an unknown source not yet detected, not even by the observatories that analyse the sky at lower energies.
Going over the evidence presented in the paper we find these facts:

1. 3C 66B is a large Fanaroff–Riley-I-type (FRI) radio galaxy, similar to M 87, with a redshift of 0.0215 (Stull et al. 1975)

2. 3C 66A is a blazar with uncertain redshift. The often referred redshift of 0.444 (Miller et al. 1978) for 3C 66A is based on a single measurement of one emission line only (and the authors were not certain on the realness of the feature), while in later observations no lines in the spectra of 3C 66A were reported (Finke et al. 2008). Based on the marginally resolved host galaxy (Wurtz et al. 1996), a photometric redshift of z = 0.321 was inferred.
 
3. We investigated the measured spectrum by MAGIC following the prescription of Mazin & Raue (2007), and derived a redshift upper limit of the source to be z < 0.17 (z < 0.24) under the assumption that the intrinsic energy spectrum cannot be harder than &#x100000; = 1.5 ( &#x100000; = 0.666).z < 0.17 (z < 0.24).
 
 So what does all that mean?
They are stating that galaxy 66B is very close, galaxy (quasar) 66A is very far, and the source of the gamma ray emission could be no further away from us than less then half way between both of them.  Taking a look at the image of the gamma ray outburst detected by the telescope we see it clearly came from the area around 66B:
 credit: MAGIC, E. Aliu et al. - the middle ring represents the 95% confidence interval for the location of the source as it pretains to the galaxies depicted.
 
So why all the hubub?  "Blazar" 66A is supposedly on the edge of the observable universe and has a long history of exploding in gamma ray outbursts.  66B does not.  Further compounding the nonsense is that the gamma ray emission has a redshift which indicates it must be less than half way between the blazar and the galaxy.  Blazars supposedly are powered by super massive (and by that I mean massive) black holes that shoot out jets of matter.  The catch is that the supposed "jet" is pointing directly at the earth, so we don't see a "jet", we just see a blob.  Of course, the fact that black holes are supposed to suck rather than blow is not mentioned.  This is supposed to account for the variablity and flickering observed in such objects. 
 
Because blazars are supposedly on the edge of the visible universe, scientists can create explainations for gamma ray sources as a function of super massive black holes that are ridiculously powerful.  This insane amount of gravitational energy is required by their failed theories in order to account for the tremendous energies of the observed gamma ray discharges.
 
At any rate, this definately poses some problems for the scientists. 
 
Halton Arp showed us decades ago that quasars are proto-galaxies that typically are formed in the heart of large mature galaxies such as our own.  Their high redshift has nothing to do with their distance from us. Hannes Alfven and Anthony Peratt showed us that galaxies themselves are a function of electrical currents in space plasma.  Scientists produce gamma rays here on earth using high powered electrical fields to speed up charged particles, nature does things the same way. 
 
In this photo, we see the large galaxy 66B with its radio lobes depicted in black lines, the yellow components are energetic X-ray emissions.  We can see x-rays bulge out on either side of the radio lobes from the center of the galaxy.  The x-ray regions show the Birkeland currents creating the electrical z-pinch at the heart of the galaxy. The x-rays are a by-product of the pinch.  As charged plasma pinches, the electric field surrounding the pinch point accelerates charged particles to incredible speeds producing the x-ray discharge on either side of the pinch observed here. 
 
The high energy emissions we observe as gamma rays are a product of instabilities in the current sheets powering the galaxy.  Dips and spikes in the current flow can break down the double layers of the Birkeland current sheets producing a catastrophic release of energy we see as gamma ray events.  The fact that both 66A and 66B are both gamma ray producers should come as no surpise since they are both located in the same highly active region of space.  This lends further credence to the claims that quasar redshifts are not a function of distance as modern scientists would have us believe.
 
 Image courtesy of J.H. Croston (University of Bristol, UK) and ESA.
 
The gamma ray discharges in both objects are caused by the same properties of charged plasma.  Ultra super massive black holes at the edge of the observable universe are not required.
 
 A technical explanation can be found here:
 
http://plasmascience.net/tpu/papers.html