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A correlation has been reported between the arrival directions of high-energy IceCube events and gamma-ray blazars classified as intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacs. Subsequent studies have investigated the optical properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xavier Rodrigues , Martina Karl , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Maria Petropoulou , Foteini Oikonomou

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) collaboration has recently reported on 50 months of measurements of the isotropic Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background (EGRB) spectrum between $100\mbox{MeV}$ and $820\mbox{GeV}$. Ultrahigh Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Eyal Gavish , David Eichler

Previous studies on the fitting of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) often apply the external-Compton process to interpret the high-energy peak of low-synchrotron-peaked (LSP) BL Lac objects (LBLs), despite the lack of strong broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-19 Hai-Bin Hu , Hai-Qin Wang , Rui Xue , Fang-Kun Peng , Ze-Rui Wang

There is growing evidence that the estimations of the beaming Doppler factor in TeV BL Lac object based on the Self Synchrotron Compton (SSC) models are in strong disagreement with those deduced from the unification models between blazars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gilles Henri , Ludovic Sauge

Recent data from the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope have revealed about a dozen distant hard-spectrum blazars that have very-high-energy (VHE; $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) photons associated with them, but most of them have not yet been detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-28 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer

Aims: We investigate the role of the second synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) photon generation to the multiwavelength emission from the compact regions of sources that are characterized as misaligned blazars. For this, we focus on the nearest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Maria Petropoulou , Eva Lefa , Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Apostolos Mastichiadis

The origin of the high-energy component in spectral energy distributions (SED) of blazars is still a bit of a mystery. While BL Lac objects can be rather successfully modelled within the one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenario, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

The high-energy-peaked blazar 1ES 1959+650 is a well-known and well studied nearby blazar that has undergone several episodes of multi-TeV flaring. In 2002 for the first time an orphan TeV flare was observed from this blazar. During a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Sarira Sahu , Carlos E. López Fortín , Luis H. Castañeda Hernández , Subhash Rajpoot

A comprehensively theoretical analysis on the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of large-scale jet knots in 3C 273 is presented for revealing their X-ray radiation mechanism. We show that these SEDs cannot be explained with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Zhen-Jie Wang , Jin Zhang , Xiao-Na Sun , En-Wei Liang

The BL Lac type object 1ES 2344+51.4 (redshift $z=0.044$) was one of the first sources to be included in the extreme high-peaked BL Lac (EHBL) family. EHBLs are characterised by a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) featuring the…

AIMS: To investigate the very high energy (VHE: >100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the high-frequency peaked BL Lac 1ES 0229+200. METHODS: Observations of 1ES 0229+200 at energies above 580 GeV were performed with the High Energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-27 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

We present results of very-high-energy gamma-ray observations (E > 160 GeV) of two high-frequency-peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects, 1ES 1218+304 and H 1426+428, with the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE). Both sources…

The synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) radiation process is widely held to provide a close representation of the double peaked spectral energy distributions from BL Lac Objects (BL Lacs), which are marked by non-thermal beamed radiations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Paggi , F. Massaro , V. Vittorini , A. Cavaliere , F. D'Ammando , F. Vagnetti , M. Tavani

The characteristic two-component blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) can be of either leptonic and/or hadronic origins. The potential association of the high-energy neutrino event IceCube-170922A with the flaring blazar TXS~0506+056…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Haocheng Zhang , Ke Fang , Hui Li , Dimitrios Giannios , Markus Böttcher , Sara Buson

The discovery of rapid and simultaneous TeV/optical (UV, X-ray) variability provides strong evidence against the interaction between a thermal radiation field produced by an accretion flow and relativistic electrons in a jet as the origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Mannheim

A prominent, 200-pc-scale high-energy nebula surrounding the microquasar V4641~Sgr is the brightest known gamma-ray source in the Southern sky at $E > 100\,\mathrm{TeV}$. In this paper, we develop self-consistent leptonic, hadronic, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Maksim Kleimenov , Andrii Neronov , Foteini Oikonomou , Dmitri Semikoz

The spectral energy distribution of blazars around the synchrotron peak can be well described by the log-parabolic model that has three parameters: peak energy ($E_\textrm{p}$), peak luminosity ($L_\textrm{p}$) and the curvature parameter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Yijun Wang , Shifu Zhu , Yongquan Xue , Minfeng Gu , Shanshan Weng , Huynh Anh N. Le

We have assembled a multi-frequency database by cross-correlating the NVSS catalog of radio sources with the RASSBSC list of soft X-ray sources, obtaining optical magnitude estimates from the Palomar and UK Schmidt surveys as provided by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Giommi , M. T. Menna , P. Padovani

The high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac object 1ES\,1959+650 exhibited pronounced activity between MJD~60310 -- 60603, including a very high energy (VHE) detection reported by LHAASO. To investigate the underlying emission mechanisms, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-24 Peer Anjum , Athar A. Dar , Zahir Shah , Bari Maqbool , Ranjeev Misra