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BL Lac Objects: Laboratories to study the environment and properties of emitting particles in relativistic jets

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

We report the variation of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars as a function of source activity, based on available, simultaneous multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of BL Lac objects. We use a fully automatized \c{hi}2 minimization procedure, instead of the commonly used eye-ball fit, to model the data sets with a one-zone Synchrotron-Self-Compton (SSC) model. The obtained SSC parameters are then analyzed as a function of source luminosity, and the correlation between parameters is shown. Possibilities of improving the present observational and modeling status of BL Lac objects are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1112.4862,
  title  = {BL Lac Objects: Laboratories to study the environment and properties of emitting particles in relativistic jets},
  author = {Nijil Mankuzhiyil and Stefano Ansoldi and Massimo Persic and Fabrizio Tavecchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4862},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures; International Cosmic Ray Symposium, Beijing, 2011