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Recently reported coincidences between high-energy neutrino events and major blazar outbursts reinforce the relevance of lepto-hadronic emission models for blazars. We study the influence of physical parameters on the neutrino output…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-18 A. Gokus , S. Richter , F. Spanier , M. Kreter , M. Kadler , K. Mannheim , J. Wilms

Blazars are promising high-energy neutrino source candidates. However, leptohadronic models face challenges in describing neutrino emission within a viable energy budget, and their predictive power is limited by the commonly used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xavier Rodrigues , Frank Rieger , Artem Bohdan , Paolo Padovani

Blazar TXS 0506+056 is the main candidate for a coincident neutrino and gamma-ray flare event. In this paper, we present a detailed kinetic lepto-hadronic emission model capable of producing a photon and neutrino spectrum given a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Bruno Jiménez-Fernández , H. J. van Eerten

Blazar emission models are usually divided into two big families, leptonic and hadronic, according to the particles which are responsible for the gamma-ray component of their spectral energy distributions. Even though leptonic models have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , G. Emery , D. Guarin

The emission of the so-called extreme BL Lacs poses challenges to the particle acceleration models. The hardness of their spectrum, $\lesssim 2$, in the high-energy band demands unusual parameters using the standard one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 E. Aguilar-Ruiz , N. Fraija , A. Galvan-Gamez , E. Benítez

While active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets have long been prime candidates for the origin of extragalactic cosmic rays and neutrinos, the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056 is the first astrophysical source observed to be associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , C. Boisson , G. Emery , S. Inoue , J. -P. Lenain

The origin of extragalactic high-energy neutrinos remains a major mystery in astrophysics, with blazars as leading candidate sources. The widely adopted one-zone leptohadronic jet model, however, faces severe challenges from stringent X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Wei-Jian Li , Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Dingrong Xiong

A correlation has been reported between the arrival directions of high-energy IceCube events and gamma-ray blazars classified as intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacs. Subsequent studies have investigated the optical properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xavier Rodrigues , Martina Karl , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Maria Petropoulou , Foteini Oikonomou

We present two ways of modeling the spectral energy distribution of blazars in the hadronic context and discuss the predictions of each "hadronic variant" on the spectral shape, the multi-wavelength variability, the cosmic-ray flux, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Paolo Padovani , Elisa Resconi , Paolo Giommi , Apostolos Mastichiadis

The Synchrotron Proton Blazar model is a promising model to explain high energy emission from gamma-ray loud BL Lac objects like Mkn 421. In contrast to leptonic models, the hadronic explanation of gamma-ray emission predicts ultrahigh…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Muecke , R. J. Protheroe

Context. The intrinsic TeV emission of some BL Lacs are characterized by a hard spectrum (the hard-TeV spectrum) after correcting for the extragalactic background light. The hard-TeV spectra pose a challenge to conventional one-zone models,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Wei-Jian Li , Rui Xue , Guang-Bo Long , Ze-Rui Wang , Shigehiro Nagataki , Da-Hai Yan , Jian-Cheng Wang

The spectral energy distribution and variability of several blazars (Mkn 501, 1 ES 2344+51.4, PKS 2155-30.4, 1 ES 1218+30.4, 3C 454.3) along the blazar sequence is investigated using a selfconsistent and timedependent lepto-hadronic hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-12 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

Current Cherenkov telescopes have identified a population of ultra-high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (UHBLs), also known as extreme blazars, that exhibit exceptionally hard TeV spectra, including 1ES 0229+200, 1ES 0347-121, RGB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-13 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , C. Boisson , S. Inoue

We describe new implementations of leptonic and hadronic models for the broadband emission from relativistic jets in AGN in a temporary steady state. For the leptonic model, a temporary equilibrium between particle injection/acceleration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Boettcher , A. Reimer , K. Sweeney , A. Prakash

Blazars have been pointed out as promising high-energy (HE) neutrinos sources, although the mechanism is still under debate. The blazars with a hard-TeV spectrum, which leptonic models can hardly explain, can be successfully interpreted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 E. Aguilar-Ruiz , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez

The characteristic double-bumped spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars is explained by either leptonic or hadronic models. In the former, Inverse Compton emission dominates the emission of the high energy bump, while proton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-03 Matteo Cerruti , Andreas Zech , Catherine Boisson , Susumu Inoue

The observation of IceCube-170922A event from the direction of TXS 0506+056 when it was in its enhanced $\gamma$-ray emission state offers a unique opportunity to investigate the lepto-hadronic processes in blazar jets. Here, the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 N. Sahakyan

Context: Hadronic models, involving matter (proton or nuclei) acceleration in blazar jets, imply high energy photon and neutrino emissions due to interactions of high-energy protons with matter and/or radiation in the source environment.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Tchernin , J. A. Aguilar , A. Neronov , T. Montaruli

Context.Blazars, a sub-category of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by their non-thermal variable emission. This emission extends over the whole electromagnetic spectrum and is a consequence of particle acceleration inside their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Stella S. Boula , Apostolos Mastichiadis

Blazars are promising candidates for high energy neutrino sources, yet the physical origin of their neutrino emission remains uncertain. In this work, we extend our previous study by modeling the broadband spectral energy distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao Ouyang , Lili Yang , Jingtian Zhu , Minfeng Gu , Liang Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Zhijian Luo , Junhui Fan
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