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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

We calculate the spectra of inverse Compton (IC) emissions in gamma-ray burst (GRB) shocks produced when relativistic ejecta encounters the external interstellar medium, assuming a broken power-law approximation to the synchrotron seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

The observations of gamma-ray emission from pulsars with the Fermi-LAT detector and the detection of the Crab pulsar with the VERITAS array of Cherenkov telescopes at energies above 100 GeV make it unlikely that curvature radiation is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Nepomuk Otte , Andrew McCann

Ap Lib is one of the rare Low Synchrotron Peaked blazars detected so far at TeV energies. This type of source is not properly modelled by standard one-zone leptonic Synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) emission scenarios. The aim of this paper is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 O. Hervet , C. Boisson , H. Sol

We extend a method for modeling synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton radiations in blazar jets to include external Compton processes. The basic model assumption is that the blazar radio through soft X-ray flux is nonthermal synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Hannah Krug , Markus Boettcher

Most modeling attempts of blazars use a small emission zone located close to the central black hole in order to explain the broad-band spectral energy distribution. Here we present a case where additionally to the small region a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Michael Zacharias , Stefan Wagner

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Mastichiadis , J. G. Kirk

M87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the TeV gamma-ray domain that is not a blazar, its large scale jet not being aligned to the line of sight. We present here a multi-blob synchrotron self-Compton model accounting explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. -P. Lenain , C. Boisson , H. Sol

Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

M 87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray domain that is not a blazar, its large scale jet not being aligned to the line of sight. Slight modification of standard emission models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 Jean-Philippe Lenain , Catherine Boisson , Hélène Sol

M87 is the first detected non-blazar extragalactic Tera-Electron-Volt (TeV) source with rapid variation and very flat spectrum in the TeV band. To explain the two-peaks in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the nucleus of M87 which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-13 Yu-Dong Cui , Ye-Fei Yuan , Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang

Hard-TeV BL Lacs are a new type of blazars characterized by a hard intrinsic TeV spectrum, locating the peak of their gamma-ray emission in the spectral energy distribution (SED) above 2-10 TeV. Such high energies are problematic for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Costamante , G. Bonnoli , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Tagliaferri , D. Khangulyan

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E$>$30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 P. Sreekumar

The spectra of BL Lac objects and Fanaroff-Riley I radio galaxies are commonly explained by the one-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. Spectral modeling of correlated multiwavelength data gives the comoving magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-27 Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer , Hajime Takami , Giulia Migliori

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe and constitute prime targets for multimessenger studies, particularly in connection with gravitational-wave events. The detection of very-high-energy (TeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Nissim Fraija , Jorge Alexis Montes , Sara Fraija-Castellanos , María Magdalena González

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 080916C shows that its spectrum is consistent with the Band function from MeV to tens of GeV. Assuming one single emission mechanism dominates in the whole energy range, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Meszaros

Synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process in the reverse shocks of gamma-ray bursts is suggested to be responsible for the observed prompt high-energy gamma-ray emissions from several gamma-ray bursts. We find that the SSC emission from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

Despite numerous studies, the origin of the gamma-ray emission from blazars is still debated, in particular whether it is produced by leptonic or hadronic processes. In this study, we are testing the leptonic scenario for the Flat Spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Anton Dmytriiev , Markus Boettcher , Thabiso O. Machipi

Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to accelerate particles to extreme energies, yet the physical origin of very-high-energy (VHE) emission from low-luminosity AGNs (LL AGNs) remains unclear. NGC 4278, a local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Shilong Chen , Abhishek Das , B. Theodore Zhang , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Yunfeng Liang

The H.E.S.S. experiment has reported the detection of very high energy (VHE: E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the well-known radio-galaxy Cen A. Following this discovery, we refine the previous multi-blob synchrotron self-Compton (SSC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-15 J. -P. Lenain , M. C. Medina , C. Boisson , G. E. Romero , H. Sol , A. Zech