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The one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model aims to describe the spectral energy distribution (SED) of BL Lac objects via synchrotron emission by a non-thermal population of electrons and positrons in a single homogeneous emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-19 Matteo Cerruti , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech

A time-dependent emission model for blazar jets, taking acceleration due to Fermi-I and Fermi-II processes for electrons and protons as well as all relevant radiative processes self-consistently into account, is presented. The presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

We present long-term multiwavelength observations of blazar CTA 102 ($z=1.037$). Detailed temporal and spectral analyses of $\gamma$-ray, X-ray and UV/optical data observed by {\it Fermi}-LAT, Swift XRT, NuSTAR and Swift-UVOT over a period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan

Like other experimental techniques, X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy is subject to various kinds of noise. Random and correlated fluctuations and heterogeneities can be present in a two-time correlation function and obscure the…

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

High energy spectra of broad-line blazars can be reproduced by both synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) models and external-Compton (EC) models. However, as is known from numerical modeling, SSC scenarios require much weaker magnetic field than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Moderski , M. Sikora

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

Machine learning models have been employed to perform either physics-free data-driven or hybrid dynamical downscaling of climate data. Most of these implementations operate over relatively small downscaling factors because of the challenge…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Daniel Getter , Julie Bessac , Johann Rudi , Yan Feng

Many luminous blazars which are associated with quasar-type active galactic nuclei display broad-band spectra characterized by a large luminosity ratio of their high-energy (gamma-ray) and low-energy (synchrotron) spectral components. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Marek Sikora , Lukasz Stawarz , Rafal Moderski , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Greg Madejski

The non-thermal spectra of jetted active galactic nuclei show a variety of shapes in their low- and high energy components. In some of the brightest Fermi-LAT blazars, prominent spectral breaks at a few GeV have been regularly detected,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Lars Hunger , Anita Reimer

In 2023 October-November, the blazar BL Lacertae underwent a very large-amplitude submm outburst. The usual single-zone leptonic model with the lower energy peak of the spectral energy distribution (SED) fit by the synchrotron emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Ayon Mondal , Arijit Sar , Maitreya Kundu , Ritaban Chatterjee , Pratik Majumdar

Blazars' non-thermal emission shows rapid variability across all wavelengths, so spectral energy distributions (SEDs) built from quasi-simultaneous data are crucial for revealing the jets physical properties. In this work, we construct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhong , Zhujian Wan , Rui Xue , Hubing Xiao , Dingrong Xiong , Ze-Rui Wang

The Fermi-LAT survey provides a large sample of blazars selected on the strength of their inverse Compton emission. We cross-correlate the first Fermi-LAT catalogue with the CRATES radio catalogue and use this sample to investigate whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-28 J. A. Gupta , I. W. A. Browne , M. W. Peel

Blazar emission models based on magnetic reconnection succeed in reproducing many observed spectral and temporal features, including the short-duration luminous flaring events. Plasmoids, a self-consistent by-product of the tearing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 I. M. Christie , M. Petropoulou , L. Sironi , D. Giannios

The broadband spectrum from the 2013 December 20 $\gamma$-ray flare from 3C~279 is analyzed with our previously-developed one-zone blazar jet model. We are able to reproduce two SEDs, a quiescent and flaring state, the latter of which had…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Tiffany R. Lewis , Peter A. Becker , Justin D. Finke

The broadband SEDs of blazars show two distinct components which in leptonic models are associated with synchrotron and SSC emission of highly relativistic electrons. In some sources the SSC component dominates the synchrotron peak by one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-17 M. Zacharias , R. Schlickeiser

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

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Muhammad S. Anjum , Shu-Jin Hou , Liang Chen , Zhigang Li , Minfeng Gu

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

The origin and evolution of spectral curvature in blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) is still unclear. Since the observed SED curvature is related to an intrinsic curvature in emitting electron energy distribution (EED), we study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Muhammad S. Anjum , Liang Chen , Minfeng Gu