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The external Compton (EC) model is used to study the high energy emission of some blazars, in which the external photon field is considered to dominate inverse Compton radiation. We explore the properties of external photon field through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiao-Yan Gao , Jian-Cheng Wang , Ming Zhou

The high frequency peaked blazar PKS 2155-304 is one of the brightest and most intensively studied prototype of BL Lac objects. Gamma-rays from PKS 2155-304 have been detected from the MeV to TeV ranges. We computed a synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Ciprini , Gino Tosti

We construct a systematic survey of extragalactic \gamma-ray sky at the energies above 100 GeV using the data of Fermi telescope. Such survey has not been previously done by the ground-based Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes which have,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

We analyze how the spectrum of synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation from a narrow relativistic jet changes with the observation angle. It is shown that diversity of acceleration mechanisms (in particular, taking the converter mechanism…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Derishev , F. A. Aharonian , Vl. V. Kocharovsky

We investigate the production of gamma-rays in the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process by leptons accelerated inside relativistic blobs in jets of active galactic nuclei. Leptons are injected homogeneously inside the spherical blob and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julian Sitarek , Wlodek Bednarek

Extreme blazars have exceptionally hard intrinsic X-ray/TeV spectra and extreme peak energies in their spectral energy distribution (SED). Observational evidence suggests that the non-thermal emission from extreme blazars is typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Pranjupriya Goswami , Michael Zacharias , Andreas Zech , Sunil Chandra , Markus Boettcher , Iurii Sushch

The jets of powerful blazars propagate within regions relatively dense of radiation produced externally to the jet. This radiation is a key ingredient to understand the origin of the high energy emission of blazars, from the X-ray to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

This study analyzes the multi-wavelength flaring activity of the distant flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) OP 313 (z=0.997) during November 2023 to March 2024, using data from Fermi-Large Area Telescope, Swift X-ray Telescope, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 P N Naseef Mohammed , T. Aminabi , C. Baheeja , Vaidehi S. Paliya , S Sahayanathan , C D Ravikumar

Centaurus A (Cen~A) is the nearest active radio galaxy, which has kiloparsec (kpc) scale jets and {giant lobes detected by various instruments in radio and X-ray frequency ranges}. The $Fermi$--Large Area Telescope and High Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Kazuhisa Tanada , Jun Kataoka , Yoshiyuki Inoue

The MAGIC collaboration recently reported the detection of the quasar 3C279 at > 100 GeV gamma-ray energies. Here we present simultaneous optical (BVRI) and X-ray (RXTE PCA) data from the day of the VHE detection and discuss the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 Markus Boettcher , Anita Reimer , Alan P. Marscher

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

In this paper we extend our approach to modeling multifrequency emission variability from blazars to include external-radiation Compton (ERC) emission and electron energy losses from inverse Compton scattering of seed photons originating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrei Sokolov , Alan P. Marscher

Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays in pulsars, and their surrounding halos, are interpreted to originate from the leptonic channel, electromagnetic interactions through electron inverse Compton (IC) scattering. In the hadronic scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Sonali Sahoo , Ankan Roy , Kritika Yadav , Reetanjali Moharana

We report the direct detection of gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center in the 150-600 keV band using the electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC), which has a wide field of view of 3.1 sr. This represents the first application of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Tomonori Ikeda , Toru Tanimori , Atsushi Takada , Taito Takemura , Kei Yoshikawa , Yuta Nakamura , Ken Onozaka , Mitsuru Abe , Yoshitaka Mizumura

The availability of simultaneous X-ray and Very High Energy (VHE) observations of blazars helps to identify the plausible radiative contributors to the VHE emission. Under leptonic scenario, the VHE emission from BL Lacs are attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Aaqib Manzoor , Sunder Sahayanathan , Zahir Shah , Subir Bhattacharyya , Naseer Iqbal , Zahoor Malik

Very fast variability on scales of minutes is regularly observed in Blazars. The assumption that these flares are emerging from the dominant emission zone of the very high energy (VHE) radiation within the jet challenges current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-10 Stephan Richter , Felix Spanier

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

Diffuse gamma-ray emission has long been established as the most prominent feature in the GeV sky. Although the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique has been successful in revealing a large population of discrete TeV gamma-ray sources, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 K. Egberts , F. Brun , S. Casanova , W. Hofmann , M. de Naurois , O. Reimer , Q. Weitzel , Y. Fukui

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

Fermi-LAT analyses show that the gamma-ray photon spectral indices Gamma_gamma of a large sample of blazars correlate with the vFv peak synchrotron frequency v_s according to the relation Gamma_gamma = d - k log v_s. The same function, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Charles D. Dermer , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang , Justin D. Finke , Benoit Lott