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The physics-determined broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of blazars have been widely used to study the property during their flaring/outburst states, while the non-flaring state takes up most of their lifetime and the general…

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We model simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for a sample of 25 blazars that have radio core-shift measurements, where a one-zone leptonic model and Markov chain Monte Carlo technique are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Linhui Wu , Qingwen Wu , Dahai Yan , Liang Chen , Xuliang Fan

The production site of gamma-rays in blazar jet is an unresolved problem. We present a method to locate gamma-ray emission region in the framework of one-zone emission model. From measurements of core-shift effect, the relation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Dahai Yan , Qingwen Wu , Xuliang Fan , Jiancheng Wang , Li Zhang

In this review, recent progress in theoretical models for blazar emission will be summarized. The salient features of both leptonic and lepto-hadronic approaches to modeling blazar spectral energy distributions will be reviewed. I will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-28 Markus Boettcher

The blazar zone in quasars is commonly assumed to be located inside the broad-line region at some hundreds of Schwartzschild radii from the central black hole. Now, the simultaneous Fermi/LAT and MAGIC observations of a strong flare in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Stamerra , J. Becerra , G. Bonnoli , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , D. Mazin , K. Saito , Y. Tanaka , D. Wood

We collect data from the radio to the gamma-ray range for three complete samples of blazars: the Slew Survey and the 1Jy samples of BL Lacs and the 2Jy sample of Flat Spectrum Radio-Loud Quasars (FSRQs). The fraction of objects detected in…

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We compile a sample of spectral energy distribution (SED) of 12 GeV radio galaxies (RGs), including eight FR I RGs and four FR II RGs. These SEDs can be represented with the one-zone leptonic model. No significant unification as expected in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Zi-Wei Xue , Jin Zhang , Wei Cui , En-Wei Liang , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We study the BL Lac objects detected in the one year all sky survey of the Fermi satellite, with a energy spectral slope alpha_gamma in the [0.1-100 GeV] band greater than 1.2. In the alpha_gamma vs gamma-ray luminosity plane, these BL Lacs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , G. Ghirlanda

Blazars, a subclass of radio-loud active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets aligned close to our line of sight, emit highly variable non-thermal radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. The physical origin of their emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Stella Boula , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Demosthenes Kazanas

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…

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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 a sub-category of radio-loud active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing towards the observer. They exhibit non-thermal variable emission, which practically extends over the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Despite the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Stela S. Boula , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Demosthenes Kazanas

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

We propose and test a fairly simple idea that could account for the blazar sequence: all jets are launched with similar energy per baryon, independently of their power. For instance, flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), the most powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Jesús M. Rueda-Becerril , Amanda O. Harrison , Dimitrios Giannios

Blazars are classically divided into the BL Lac (BLL) and Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) subclasses, corresponding to radiatively inefficient and efficient accretion regimes, respectively, largely based on the equivalent width (EW) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 J. J. Ruan , S. F. Anderson , R. M. Plotkin , W. N. Brandt , T. H. Burnett , A. D. Myers , D. P. Schneider

Blazar spectra are one of the most important windows into the physical processes occurring along jets. The spectrum, composed from the different emitting regions along the jet, allows us to constrain the physical conditions in the jet. I…

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

Average Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) for different subgroups of blazars are derived from available homogeneous (but small) data sets, including the gamma-ray band. Comparing Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) with BL Lacs extracted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Maraschi , Giovanni Fossati

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

We fit the (quasi-)simultaneous multi-waveband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for a sample of low-synchrotron-peaked (LSP) blazars with a one-zone leptonic model. The seed photons that predominantly come from broad line region (BLR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiju Kang , Liang Chen , Qingwen Wu
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