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Theoretical modelling and observations of AGN jets suggest that the non-thermal electrons emitting the observed radiation should (i) carry an amount of energy comparable to the magnetic fields ($U_e\sim U_B$), which is likely the case if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 E. Sobacchi , Y. E. Lyubarsky

Here we report our recent study on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the high frequency BL Lac object Mrk 421 in different luminosity states. We used a full-fledged chi2-minimization procedure instead of more commonly used "eyeball"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Fabrizio Tavechhio

We investigate the physical properties of BL Lac objects (BL Lacs) jets by modeling the quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 22 {\it Fermi} BL Lac objects in the frame of a simple one-zone synchrotron self-Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Dahai Yan , Houdun Zeng , Li Zhang

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

We investigate the physical properties of \textit{Fermi} TeV BL Lac objects jets by modeling the quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distribution of 29 \textit{Fermi} TeV BL Lacs in the frame of a one-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 N. Ding , X. Zhang , D. R. Xiong , H. J. Zhang

The beaming pattern of radiation emitted by a relativistically moving source like jets in microquasars, AGN and GRBs, is a key issue for understanding of acceleration and radiation processes in these objects. In this paper we introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 S. R. Kelner , E. Lefa , F. M. Rieger , F. A. Aharonian

Electrons are accelerated at the shock wave diffuse and advect outward, and subsequently drift away into the emitting region of the jet that is located in the downstream flow from the plane shock. The current work considers the acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 X. X. Xie , K. R. Zhu , S. J. Kang , Y. G. Zheng

Shocks are promising sites of particle acceleration in extragalactic jets. In electron-ion shocks, electrons can be heated up to large Lorentz factors, making them an attractive scenario to explain the high minimum electron Lorentz factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Arbet-Engels , A. Bohdan , F. Rieger , D. Paneque , F. Jenko

In this paper we investigate the properties of a sample of six BL Lacs by fitting their spectra using our inhomogeneous jet model with an accelerating, magnetically dominated, parabolic base, which transitions to a slowly decelerating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

The problem of the anisotropic Inverse Compton scattering between a monochromatic photon beam and relativistic electrons is revisited and formally solved without approximations. Solutions are given for the single scattering with an electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Brunetti

A simple model of cosmic ray electron acceleration at the jet boundary (Ostrowski 2000) yields a power-law particle energy distribution of ultrarelativistic electrons with an energy cut-off growing with time and finally, a growing particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Stawarz , M. Ostrowski

We examine the potential multi-messenger role of BL Lac objects emitting at high energy (so-called HBL) focusing on the limits on the energy density of soft radiation in the jet frame, a critical parameter which regulates the proton cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 F. Tavecchio , F. Oikonomou , C. Righi

In the first of a series of papers investigating emission from blazar jets from radio to high-energy {\gamma}-rays, we revisit the class of models where the jet has a uniform conical ballistic structure. We argue that by using simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-13 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

Binary neutron stars mergers widely accepted as potential progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. After the remnant of the merger has collapsed to a black hole, a jet is powered and may breakout from the the matter expelled during the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-15 Vasilis Mpisketzis , Raphaël Duqué , Antonios Nathanail , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Luciano Rezzolla

We fit the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 46 GeV - TeV BL Lac objects in the frame of leptonic one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and investigate the physical properties of these objects. We use the Markov Chain Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Chuyuan Yang , Zunli Yuan , Shiju Kang , Jirong Mao

A formalism for describing relativistic ponderomotive effects, which occur in the dynamics of an electron driven by a focused relativisticaly intense optical envelope, is established on the basis of a rigorous asymptotic expansion of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 O. B. Shiryaev

Through the modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of blazars we can infer the physical parameters required to originate the flux we see. Then we can estimate the power of blazar jets in the form of matter and fields. These estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghisellini

BL Lac objects are the best candidates to study the jet properties since their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are less contaminated by the emission from the accretion disk and external Compton processes. We compile the broadband SEDs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Jin-Ming Bai

We developed theory of particle acceleration inside the relativistic rotating electron-positron force-free jet with spiral magnetic field. We considered perturbation of stationary magnetic field structure and found that acceleration takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Beresnyak , Ya. N. Istomin , V. I. Pariev

On a dense energy grid reaching up to 75 meV electron collision energy the fragmentation angle and the kinetic energy release of neutral dissociative recombination fragments have been studied in a twin merged beam experiment. The anisotropy…

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