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Modelling the steady state spectral energy distribution of the BL-Lac Object PKS 2155-304 using a selfconsistent SSC model

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2010-05-28 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

In this paper we present a fully selfconsistent SSC model with particle acceleration due to shock and stochastic acceleration (Fermi-I and Fermi-II-Processes respectively) to model the quiescent spectral energy distribution (SED) observed from PKS 2155. The simultaneous August/September 2008 multiwavelength data of H.E.S.S., Fermi, RXTE, SWIFT and ATOM give new constraints to the high-energy peak in the SED concerning its curvature. We find that, in our model, a monoenergetic injection of electrons at γ0=910\gamma_0 = 910 into the model region, which are accelerated by Fermi-I- and Fermi-II-processes while suffering synchrotron and inverse Compton losses, finally leads to the observed SED of PKS 2155-30.4 shown in H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT collaborations (2009). In contrast to other SSC models our parameters arise from the jet's microphysics and the spectrum is evolving selfconsistently from diffusion and acceleration. The γ0\gamma_0-factor can be interpreted as two counterstreaming plasmas due to the motion of the blob at a bulk factor of Γ=58\Gamma = 58 and opposed moving upstream electrons at moderate Lorentz factors with an average of γu8\gamma_u \approx 8.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2145,
  title  = {Modelling the steady state spectral energy distribution of the BL-Lac Object PKS 2155-304 using a selfconsistent SSC model},
  author = {Matthias Weidinger and Michael Rüger and Felix Spanier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2145},
  year   = {2010}
}

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