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3D Compton scattering imaging is an upcoming concept exploiting the scattering of photons induced by the electronic structure of the object under study. The so-called Compton scattering rules the collision of particles with electrons and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Gael Rigaud

Synchrotron radiation mechanism, when electrons are accelerated in a relativistic shock, is known to have serious problems to explain the observed gamma-ray spectrum below the peak for most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs); the synchrotron spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-02 R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , P. Kumar

ROSAT observations of a large sample of bright gamma-ray (E > 100 MeV) blazars are presented. Results of a detailed spectral analysis in the soft $\sim$ 0.1-2.0 keV energy range are discussed in relation to the overall energy distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Comastri , G. Fossati , G. Ghisellini , S. Molendi

A high energy power law is a common feature in the spectra of many astrophysical objects. We show that the photons in a relativistic plasma with a variable Lorentz factor go through repeated scattering with electrons to gain energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Mukesh K. Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

We find that energy losses due to synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission in blazar jets can produce distinctive signatures in the time-averaged synchrotron and SSC spectra of these objects. For a fairly broad range of particle injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Chiang , Markus Boettcher

An electron passing through a counter propagating intense laser beam can interact with a few laser photons with emission of a hard photon in each collision event. In contrast with the well-known nonlinear Compton backscattering process the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Potylitsyn , A. Kol`chuzhkin

The characteristic double-bumped spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars is explained by either leptonic or hadronic models. In the former, Inverse Compton emission dominates the emission of the high energy bump, while proton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-03 Matteo Cerruti , Andreas Zech , Catherine Boisson , Susumu Inoue

The beamed inverse Compton/cosmic microwave background model has generally been used for the interpretation of X-ray radiation from kiloparsec-scale jets of the core-dominated quasars. Recent \textit{Fermi}-LAT and \textit{HST} observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-01 Marina S. Butuzova , Alexander B. Pushkarev

The blazar 3C 454.3 was revealed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to be in an exceptionally high flux state in July 2008. Accordingly, we performed a multi-wavelength monitoring campaign on this blazar using IR and optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. W. Bonning , C. Bailyn , C. M. Urry , M. Buxton , G. Fossati , L. Maraschi , P. Coppi , R. Scalzo , J. Isler , A. Kaptur

The external Compton (EC) model is used to study the high energy emission of some blazars, in which the external photon field is considered to dominate inverse Compton radiation. We explore the properties of external photon field through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiao-Yan Gao , Jian-Cheng Wang , Ming Zhou

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

Inverse Compton scattering of an ultra-relativistic electron in the field of a high-intensity laser produces photon beams with angular and spectral distributions that are strongly dependent on the laser intensity. Here, we show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 K. Fleck , T. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , M. Bruschi , P. Grutta , M. Morandin , G. Sarri

Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

Using public \fermi LAT and \swift BAT observations, we constructed the first sample of blazars selected at both hard X-rays and gamma-rays. Studying its spectral properties, we find a luminosity dependence of the spectral slopes at both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 R. M. Sambruna , D. Donato , M. Ajello , L. Maraschi , the GSFC BAT Team

Very fast variability on scales of minutes is regularly observed in Blazars. The assumption that these flares are emerging from the dominant emission zone of the very high energy (VHE) radiation within the jet challenges current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-10 Stephan Richter , Felix Spanier

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Blazars radiate from relativistic plasma jets with bulk Lorentz factors {\Gamma} ~ 10, closely aligned along our line of sight. In a number of blazars of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar type such as 3C 454.3 and 3C 279 gamma-ray flares have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-22 Marco Tavani , Valerio Vittorini , Alfonso Cavaliere

The extremely high brightness temperature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires that their emission mechanism must be "coherent", either through concerted particle emission by bunches or through an exponential growth of a plasma wave mode or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Bing Zhang

A small fraction of Narrow Line Seyfert 1s (NLSy1s) are observed to be gamma-ray emitters. Understanding the properties of these sources is of interest since the majority of NLSy1s are very different from typical blazars. Here, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 J. Larsson , F. D'Ammando , S. Falocco , M. Giroletti , M. Orienti , E. Piconcelli , S. Righini

We present statistical analyses of a large homogenous data sample of Fermi-detected blazars thoroughly studied in order to reassess the relationship between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and subclasses of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 E. U. Iyida , F. C. Odo , A. E. Chukwude , A. A. Ubachukwu