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We describe the development of the model for interstellar gamma-ray emission that is the standard adopted by the LAT team and is publicly available. The model is based on a linear combination of templates for interstellar gas column density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian

We study the general physical properties of Fermi blazars using the Fermi fourth source catalog data (4FGL-DR2). The quasi-simultaneous multiwavelength data of Fermi blazar are fitted by using the one-zone leptonic model to obtain some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-03 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Hongyu Liu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaotong Guo

Blazars emit non-thermal radiation in all frequency bands from radio to \gamma-rays. Additionally, they often exhibit rapid flaring events at all frequencies with doubling time scale of the TeV and X-ray flux on the order of minutes, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

We study the $\rm{\gamma}$-ray luminosity and beaming effect for Fermi blazars. Our results are as follows. (i) There are significant correlations between $\rm{\gamma}$-ray luminosity and radio core luminosity, and between $\rm{\gamma}$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Yong-Yun Chen , Xiong Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Si-Ju Wang , Xiaoling Yu

In this paper, we have selected a sample of 64 teraelectronvolt blazars, with redshift, from those classified in the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-02 R. X. Zhou , Y. G. Zheng , K. R. Zhu , S. J. Kang

We compare the rise and decay timescales of $\sim$200 long-term ($\sim$weeks-months) GeV and R-band outbursts and $\sim$25 short-term ($\sim$hr-day) GeV flares in a sample of 10 blazars using light curves from the Fermi-LAT and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Namrata Roy , Ritaban Chatterjee , Manasvita Joshi , Aritra Ghosh

In blazars such as 3C 279, GeV gamma-rays are thought to be produced by inverse Compton scattering of soft photons injected from external sources into the jet. Because of the large bulk Lorentz factor of the jet, the energy of soft photons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

High-energy emission (from the X-ray through the gamma-ray band) of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars is widely associated with the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of ambient photons, produced either by the accretion disk or by the Broad Line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini

We extend our approach of modeling spectral energy distribution (SED) and lightcurves of blazars to include external Compton (EC) emission due to inverse Compton scattering of an external anisotropic target radiation field. We describe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Manasvita Joshi , Alan P. Marscher , Markus Boettcher

Gamma-ray luminosities of some quasar-associated blazars imply jet powers reaching values comparable to the accretion power even if assuming very strong Doppler boosting and very high efficiency of gamma-ray production. With much lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Marek Sikora , Mateusz Janiak , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Greg M. Madejski , Rafał Moderski

A high-brilliance ($\sim10^{24}$~photon.s$^{-1}$.mm$^{-2}$.mrd$^{-2}$/0.1\%) gamma-ray source experiment is currently being planned at Fermilab ($E_\gamma\simeq 1.1$~MeV)~[1]. The source implements a high-repetition-rate inverse Compton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Mihalcea , A. Murokh , P. Piot , J. Ruan

We investigate the dependence of gamma-ray brightness of blazars on intrinsic properties of their parsec-scale radio jets and the implication for relativistic beaming. By combining apparent jet speeds derived from high-resolution VLBA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Savolainen , D. C. Homan , T. Hovatta , M. Kadler , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

We present a determination of the distributions of gamma-ray photon flux -- the so called LogN-LogS relation -- and photon spectral index for blazars, based on the third extragalactic source catalog of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 J. Singal

The gamma-ray energy spectra of bright blazars of the LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) are investigated using Fermi-LAT data. Spectral properties (hardness, curvature and variability) established using a data set accumulated over 6 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT Collaboration

The exact location of the gamma-ray emitting region in blazars is still controversial. In order to attack this problem we present first results of a cross-correlation analysis between radio (11 cm to 0.8 mm wavelength, F-GAMMA program) and…

Blazars display strong variability on multiple timescales and in multiple radiation bands. Their variability is often characterized by power spectral densities (PSDs) and time lags plotted as functions of the Fourier frequency. We develop a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

A prediction for the energy shift of the synchrotron spectrum of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) during high-energy flares is presented. If the $\gamma$-ray emission of FSRQs is produced by Comptonization of external radiation, then the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher

In this paper, we discuss the light-curve features of various flaring scenarios in a time-dependent leptonic model for low-frequency-peaked blazars. The quasar 3C273 is used as an illustrative example. Our code takes into account Fermi-II…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-21 Christopher Diltz , Markus Boettcher

The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscopes to investigate the nature of such sources. We study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Sarah M. Wagner , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Greg Madejski , Andrea Gokus , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Patrick Günther , Karl Mannheim