page_title: Synchrotron radiation
hierarchical_section_title: Synchrotron radiation
caption_attribution_description: English: syncrotron radiation
context_page_description: Synchrotron radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when charged particles are accelerated radially, e.g., when they are subject to an acceleration perpendicular to their velocity. It is produced, for example, in synchrotrons using bending magnets, undulators and/or wigglers. If the particle is non-relativistic, then the emission is called cyclotron emission. If, on the other hand, the particles are relativistic, sometimes referred to as ultrarelativistic, the emission is called synchrotron emission. Synchrotron radiation may be achieved artificially in synchrotrons or storage rings, or naturally by fast electrons moving through magnetic fields. The radiation produced in this way has a characteristic polarization and the frequencies generated can range over the entire electromagnetic spectrum which is also called continuum radiation.
  In astrophysics, synchrotron emission occur, for instance, due to ultra-relativistic motion of a source around a black hole. When the source performs a circular geodesic around the black hole, the synchrotron radiation occur for orbits close to the photosphere where the motion is in ultra-relativistic regime.
context_section_description: Synchrotron radiation (also known as magnetobremsstrahlung radiation) is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when charged particles are accelerated radially, e.g., when they are subject to an acceleration perpendicular to their velocity (a ⊥ v). It is produced, for example, in synchrotrons using bending magnets, undulators and/or wigglers. If the particle is non-relativistic, then the emission is called cyclotron emission. If, on the other hand, the particles are relativistic, sometimes referred to as  ultrarelativistic, the emission is called synchrotron emission. Synchrotron radiation may be achieved artificially in synchrotrons or storage rings, or naturally by fast electrons moving through magnetic fields. The radiation produced in this way has a characteristic polarization and the frequencies generated can range over the entire electromagnetic spectrum which is also called continuum radiation.
  In astrophysics, synchrotron emission occur, for instance, due to ultra-relativistic motion of a source around a black hole. When the source performs a circular geodesic around the black hole, the synchrotron radiation occur for orbits close to the photosphere where the motion is in ultra-relativistic regime.
caption: Synchrotron radiation from a bending magnet
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