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The emission of the so-called extreme BL Lacs poses challenges to the particle acceleration models. The hardness of their spectrum, $\lesssim 2$, in the high-energy band demands unusual parameters using the standard one-zone synchrotron…

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We investigate the physical properties of BL Lac objects (BL Lacs) jets by modeling the quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 22 {\it Fermi} BL Lac objects in the frame of a simple one-zone synchrotron self-Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Dahai Yan , Houdun Zeng , Li Zhang

PKS 1424+240 is a distant very high energy gamma-ray BL Lac object with redshift $z=0.601$. It was found that pure synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process normally need extreme input parameters (e.g., very low magnetic field intensity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Shiju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu , Liang Chen

Extreme blazars have exceptionally hard intrinsic X-ray/TeV spectra and extreme peak energies in their spectral energy distribution (SED). Observational evidence suggests that the non-thermal emission from extreme blazars is typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Pranjupriya Goswami , Michael Zacharias , Andreas Zech , Sunil Chandra , Markus Boettcher , Iurii Sushch

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

From the early days in gamma-ray astronomy, locating the origin of GeV emission within the core of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) persisted as an open question; the problem is to discern between near- and far-site scenarios with respect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 B. Arsioli , Y-L. Chang

We study the variation of the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 as a function of source activity, from quiescent to flaring. Through chi-square-minimization we model eight simultaneous SED datasets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Elizabeth Rivers , Richard Rothschild , Fabrizio Tavecchio

We study the synchrotron component of the spectral energy distribution (SED) on the sample of 877 blazars using the ASDC SED Builder Tool with available broadband data from the literature. Our sample includes 423 flat-spectrum radio sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-30 M. Mingaliev , Yu. Sotnikova , T. Mufakharov , A. Erkenov , R. Udovitskiy

We summarize broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar 1ES 1959+650, including optical R-band observations by the robotic telescopes Super-LOTIS and iTelescope, UV observations by Swift UVOT, X-ray observations by the Swift X-ray…

The broadband spectral energy distribution(SED) of blazars is generally interpreted as radiation arising from synchrotron and inverse Compton mechanisms.Traditionally, the underlying source parameters responsible for these emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Sahayanathan , A. Sinha , R. Misra

We present detailed calculations of nonthermal synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) spectra radiated by blast waves that are energized by interactions with a uniform surrounding medium. Radio, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang , Kurt E. Mitman

We study the quasi-simultaneous Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) of 48 LBAS blazars, collected within three months of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) data taking period, combining Fermi and Swift data with radio NIR-Optical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 S. Raino' , E. Cavazzuti , S. Colafrancesco , P. Giommi , A. Tramacere , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The eponymous BL Lac object BL Lacertae is one of the most well-monitored active galactic nuclei, frequently observed from radio to gamma rays. Its relatively soft $\gamma$-ray spectrum peaks near 500~MeV, and since 2020 it has undergone an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-17 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Elisa Visentin , Federico Di Pierro , Haocheng Zhang

We calculate the spectral energy distribution (SED) of electromagnetic radiation and the spectrum of high energy neutrinos from BL Lac objects in the context of the Synchrotron Proton Blazar Model. In this model, the high energy hump of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Muecke , R. J. Protheroe , R. Engel , J. P. Rachen , T. Stanev

In the context of modeling spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for blazars, we extend the method that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to include external inverse Compton processes. The model assumes that relativistic electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 N. Sahakyan , D. Bégué , A. Casotto , H. Dereli-Bégué , P. Giommi , S. Gasparyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan , A. Pe'er

We have collected broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of three BL Lac objects, 3FGL J0022.1$-$1855 (z=0.689), 3FGL J0630.9$-$2406 (z >~ 1.239), and 3FGL J0811.2$-$7529 (z=0.774), detected by Fermi with relatively flat GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 LAT Collaboration

We compile from literature the broadband SEDs of twelve TeV blazars observed simultaneously or quasi-simultaneously with Fermi/LAT and other instruments. Two SEDs are available for each of the objects and the state is identified as a low or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jin Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Very high energy (VHE; $E \geq$ 100GeV) $\gamma-$ray from cosmological distances are attenuated by the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the IR to UV band. By contrasting measured versus intrinsic emission, the EBL photon density can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-01 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Quangui Gao , Weiwei Na , Huaizhen Li , Ju Ma , Jianping Yang

In this review, recent progress in theoretical models for blazar emission will be summarized. The salient features of both leptonic and lepto-hadronic approaches to modeling blazar spectral energy distributions will be reviewed. I will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-28 Markus Boettcher

Lately a specific kind of blazars drew the attention of the gamma-ray astronomy community: the extreme TeV BL Lacs, blazars that present an extremely energetic and hard emission at very high-energy. Explaining their features is still an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Alberto Sciaccaluga , Fabrizio Tavecchio