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We present a model of the spectra of gamma-ray emitting blazars in which a single homogeneous emission region both emits synchrotron photons directly and scatters them to high (gamma-ray) energy before emission (a ``synchrotron…

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We present a comprehensive study of the X-ray spectral variability observed in 13 TeV photon emitting high energy peaked BL Lacs(HBLs). These data come from 54 XMM-Newton EPIC-PN pointed observations made during its operational period from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 P. U. Devanand , Alok C. Gupta , V. Jithesh , Paul J. Wiita , Archana Gupta

High-energy observations of extreme BL Lac objects, such as 1ES0229+200 or 1ES 0347-121, recently focused interest both for blazar and jet physics and for the implication on the extragalactic background light and intergalactic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-17 F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli

Multiwavelength variability of blazars offers indirect insight into their powerful engines and on the mechanisms through which energy is propagated from the centre down the jet. The BL Lac object Mkn 421 is a TeV emitter, a bright blazar at…

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the temporal and spectral variability of the low-energy peaked BL Lac object S5 0716+714 with a long (~74 ks)X-ray observation performed by XMM-Newton on 2007 September 24-25. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 You-Hong Zhang

PKS 2155-304 is one of the prototypes of BL Lac objects. Its spectral energy distribution is known from the radio to the TeV band and has two peaks, one in the soft X-rays and the other in the TeV region. These may be interpreted within the…

Blazar spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are double peaked and follow a self-similar sequence in luminosity. The so-called "blue" blazars, whose first SED component peaks at X-ray energies, are TeV sources, although with a relatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Megan Urry

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

BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) is the dominant population of TeV emitting blazars. In this work, we investigate whether there is any special observational properties for TeV sources. To do so, we will compare the observational properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 C. Lin , J. H. Fan

The emission of the so-called extreme blazars challenges the particle acceleration models. The hardness of its spectrum, $<2$, demands extreme parameters using the standard one-zone SSC model in the high energy band. Some authors use both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-27 E. Aguilar-Ruiz , N. Fraija

Blazars have traditionally been separated into two broad categories based upon their optical emission characteristics; BL Lacs, with faint or no emission lines, and flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with prominent, broad emission lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Falcone , the VERITAS collaboration

Cosmic opacity for very high-energy gamma rays ($E>10$ TeV) due to the interaction with the extragalactic background light can be strongly reduced because of possible Lorentz-violating terms in the particle dispersion relations expected,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli

We investigate the evolution of spectral energy distribution (SED) and underlying electron energy distribution (EED) by modeling the nearly simultaneous broadband spectra of selected bright 4FGL blazars, in the context of a combined cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Muhammad S. Anjum , Shu-Jin Hou , Liang Chen , Zhigang Li , Minfeng Gu

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of blazars selected from the 5th ROMABZCAT catalog. We selected from this sample a subsample of 2435 objects having at least one counterpart in one of the three main archival X-ray…

M87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the TeV range that is not a blazar. With the increasing performances of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes, we can now probe the variability in the gamma-ray flux at small timescales, thus…

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

The broad high-energy spectral component in blazars is usually attributed to various inverse Compton scattering processes in the relativistic jet, but has not been clearly identified in most cases due to degeneracies in physical models. AP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-13 Agniva Roychowdhury , Eileen T. Meyer , Markos Georganopoulos , Peter Breiding , Maria Petropoulou

Extreme high-synchrotron peaked blazars (EHSPs) are rare high-energy sources characterised by synchrotron peaks beyond 10$^{17}$ Hz in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Their extreme properties challenge conventional blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Láinez , M. Nievas-Rosillo , A. Domínguez , J. L. Contreras , J. Becerra González , A. Dinesh , V. S. Paliya

Extreme TeV blazars (ETBs) are active galactic nuclei with jets presumably pointing towards the observer having their intrinsic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) peaked at an energy in excess of 1 TeV. These sources typically reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Timur Dzhatdoev , Vladimir Galkin , Egor Podlesnyi

We summarize the results of BeppoSAX ToO observation of blazars that were known to be in a high state from observations carried out in the optical or X-ray or TeV bands.In some of the observed sources, two spectral components were detected,…

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