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The $\gamma$-ray production mechanism and its localization in blazars are still a matter of debate. The main goal of this paper is to constrain the location of the high-energy emission in the blazar TXS 2013+370 and to study the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 E. Traianou , T. P. Krichbaum , B. Boccardi , R. Angioni , B. Rani , J. Liu , E. Ros , U. Bach , K. V. Sokolovsky , S. Kiehlmann , M. Gurwell , J. A. Zensus

The studies and constraints on the emission region are crucial to the blazar radiation mechanism. Yet the previous works mainly focus on individual sources. In this work, we make use of the largest and the latest spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Junhui Fan , Hubing Xiao , Wenxin Yang , Lixia Zhang , Anton A. Strigachev , Rumen S. Bachev , Jianghe Yang

Locating the gamma-ray emission sites in blazar jets is a long-standing and highly controversial issue. We investigate jointly several constraints on the distance scale r and Lorentz factor Gamma of the gamma-ray emitting regions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mitchell C. Begelman , Marek Sikora

We employ a single-zone leptonic jet model, with synchrotron, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) and external Compton (EC) process, to reproduce the quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions in active and quiescent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Shiju Kang

We model simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for a sample of 25 blazars that have radio core-shift measurements, where a one-zone leptonic model and Markov chain Monte Carlo technique are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Linhui Wu , Qingwen Wu , Dahai Yan , Liang Chen , Xuliang Fan

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…

The distance of the Fermi-detected blazar gamma-ray emission site from the supermassive black hole is a matter of active debate. Here we present a method for testing if the GeV emission of powerful blazars is produced within the sub-pc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Amanda Dotson , Markos Georganopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Eric S. Perlman

The exact location of the $\gamma$-ray emitting region in blazar jets has long been a matter of debate. However, the location has important implications about the emission processes, geometric and physical parameters of the jet, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Maitreya Kundu , Arit Bala , Saugata Barat , Ritaban Chatterjee

The blazar zone in quasars is commonly assumed to be located inside the broad-line region at some hundreds of Schwartzschild radii from the central black hole. Now, the simultaneous Fermi/LAT and MAGIC observations of a strong flare in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Stamerra , J. Becerra , G. Bonnoli , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , D. Mazin , K. Saito , Y. Tanaka , D. Wood

Blazar spectral models generally have numerous unconstrained parameters, leading to ambiguous values for physical properties like Doppler factor delta or fluid magnetic field B'. To help remedy this problem, a few modifications of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Charles D. Dermer , Matteo Cerruti , Benoit Lott , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech

Determining the location of $\gamma$-ray emission in blazar jets is a challenging task. Pinpointing the exact location of $\gamma$-ray production within a relativistic jet can place strong constraints on our understanding of high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 F. Rösch , M. Kadler , E. Ros , M. Gurwell , T. Hovatta , M. Kreter , N. R. MacDonald , A. C. S. Readhead

We investigate the dissipation of the bulk kinetic energy of a relativistic jet at different distances from the central power--house and analyse in detail how the dissipated energy is radiated away. We assume that the location of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Katarzynski , G. Ghisellini

The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energies (>10 GeV) give us the strongest constraints. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Pacciani , F. Tavecchio , I. Donnarumma , A. Stamerra , L. Carrasco , E. Recillas , A. Porras , M. Uemura

Blazars are powerful, variable emitters from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Even though the general picture of synchrotron emission at low energies and inverse Compton at the high energy end is well established, many important aspects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , T. Hovatta , O. G. King , R. Reeves

It is widely accepted that strong and variable radiation detected over all accessible energy bands in a number of active galaxies arises from a relativistic, Doppler-boosted jet pointing close to our line of sight. The size of the emitting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 LAT Collaboration , members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

The FSRQ 4C+01.28 is a bright and highly variable radio and $\gamma$-ray emitter. We aim to pinpoint the location of the $\gamma$-ray emitting region within its jet in order to derive strong constraints on $\gamma$-ray emission models for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 F. Rösch , M. Kadler , E. Ros , L. Ricci , M. A. Gurwell , T. Hovatta , N. R. MacDonald , A. C. S. Readhead

The location of $\gamma$-ray emitting region in blazars has been an open issue for several decades and is still being debated. We use the Paliya et al. sample of 619 $\gamma$-ray-loud flat-spectrum radio quasars with the available spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Danyi Huang , Ziyan Li , Jiru Liao , Xiulin Huang , Chengfeng Li , Yanjun Qian , Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan

Relativistic jets from accreting supermassive black holes at cosmological distances can be powerful emitters of $\gamma$-rays. However, the precise mechanisms and locations responsible for the dissipation of energy within these jets,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla , Karl Mannheim , Bhargav Vaidya , Biswajit Banerjee

The expected level of gamma-gamma absorption in the Broad Line Region (BLR) radiation field of gamma-ray loud Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs)is evaluated as a function of the location of the gamma-ray emission region. This is done…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Markus Boettcher , Paul Els

The location of the Gamma-ray emission of powerful blazars is a matter of active debate. Is the location within the UV emitting sub-pc scale broad line region, or farther out at pc scales where the molecular torus IR emission dominates? We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-29 M. Georganopoulos , E. T. Meyer , G. Fossati
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