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We study the time dependent spectra produced via the bulk Compton process by a cold, relativistic shell of plasma moving (and accelerating) along the jet of a blazar, scattering on external photons emitted by the accretion disc and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Annalisa Celotti , Gabriele Ghisellini , Andrew C. Fabian

The multi-wavelength spectral and temporal variability observed in blazars set tight constraints on current theoretical emission models. Here, we investigate the relativistic magnetic reconnection process as a source of blazar emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-04 I. M. Christie , M. Petropoulou , L. Sironi , D. Giannios

Comprehensive VLBI and multi-waveband monitoring indicate that a single superluminal knot can cause a number of gamma-ray flares at different locations. However, the often very rapid variability timescale is a challenge to theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-01 Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad

Simultaneous observations of blazars in different spectral regimes imply that the amplitude of variability depends on the observational band. Both in the low energy spectral component and in the high energy spectral component, the amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Sikora , Greg Madejski , Mitchell Begelman

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

The blazar 3C 279 is well known for its rapid and large-amplitude variability. On 20 December 2013, the source exhibited an orphan {\gamma}-ray flare characterized by a flux-doubling timescale of a few hours, a very hard spectrum, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Sébastien Le Bihan , Anton Dmytriiev , Andreas Zech

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

We collect a sample of 78 Fermi detected blazars with broad line region (BLR) data and the quasi-simultaneous multi-wave band data. By analyzing the sample, we find: (1) For whole blazar sample, there exist significant correlations between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Zerui Wang , Rui Xue , Zhaohua Xie , Leiming Du , Tingfeng Yi , Yunbing Xu , Wenguang Liu

We investigate the origin of high-energy emission in blazars within the context of the leptohadronic one-zone model. We find that $\gamma$-ray emission can be attributed to synchrotron radiation either from protons or from secondary leptons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Apostolos Mastichiadis , Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis

Context. Blazar AO 0235+164, located at redshift z = 0.94, has undergone several sharp multi-spectral-range flaring episodes during the last decades. In particular, the episodes peaking in 2008 and 2015, that received extensive…

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope observations of blazars show a strong correlation between the spectral index of their gamma-ray spectra and their synchrotron peak frequency $\nu_{\rm{pk}}^{\rm{syn}}$; additionally, the rate of Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Stella Boula , Demosthenes Kazanas , Apostolos Mastichiadis

We present a fully analytical, time-dependent leptonic one-zone model that describes a simplified radiation process of multiple interacting ultrarelativistic electron populations, accounting for the flaring of GeV blazars. In this model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Christian Röken , Florian Schuppan , Katharina Proksch , Sebastian Schöneberg

Here we present a new approach for constraining luminous blazars, incorporating fully time-dependent and self-consistent modeling of bright gamma-ray flares of PKS1510-089 resolved with Fermi-LAT, in the framework of the internal shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Shinya Saito , Lukasz Stawarz , Yasuyuki Tanaka , Tadayuki Takahashi , Marek Sikora , Rafal Moderski

We present an ordinary case in the momentum diffusion equation for the electron spectrum evolution and investigate the energy spectra and time dependent properties of flare in Mrk 421 in the frame of a time-dependent one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , J. Li

We study the production of VHE emission in blazars as a superposition of a steady component from a baryonic jet and a time- dependent contribution from an inner e-e+ beam launched by the black hole. Both primary relativistic electrons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-20 Matías M. Reynoso , Gustavo E. Romero , María C. Medina

Blazars host the most powerful persistent relativistic conical jet -- a highly collimated anisotropic flow of material/plasma. Motivated by this, we explore the blazar's broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) in an anisotropic flow of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Pankaj Kushwaha

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at Earth. Blazars are characterized by strong, apparently stochastic flux variability at virtually all observed wavelengths and timescales, from minutes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Aryeh Brill

We present cross-correlation studies of gamma-ray (0.1-300 GeV), X-ray (0.2-10 keV) and optical (R-band) variability of a sample of 26 blazars during 2008-2016. The light curves are from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and the Yale-SMARTS blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Anwesh Majumder , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , Prantik Nandi

Does the "blazar sequence" exist, or is it a result of a selection effect, due to the difficulty in measuring the redshifts of blazars with both high synchrotron peak frequencies (\gtrsim 10^{15} Hz) and luminosities (\gtrsim 10^{46} erg…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Justin Finke

Recently, blazar 4C +27.50 was found to be flaring in gamma-rays since its detection with Fermi-LAT in 2008. For the first time, a dedicated temporal and spectral study of the blazar 4C +27.50 has been performed in this work to understand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Joysankar Majumdar , Sakshi Maurya , Raj Prince