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We calculate the spectral energy distribution (SED) of electromagnetic radiation and the spectrum of high energy neutrinos from BL Lac objects in the context of the Synchrotron Proton Blazar Model. In this model, the high energy hump of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Muecke , R. J. Protheroe , R. Engel , J. P. Rachen , T. Stanev

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

Blazars emit a highly-variable non-thermal spectrum. It is usually assumed that the same non-thermal electrons are responsible for the IR-optical-UV emission (via synchrotron) and the gamma-ray emission (via inverse Compton). Hence, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Emanuele Sobacchi , Joonas Nättilä , Lorenzo Sironi

In this work, a time-dependent modeling is developed to study the emission properties of blazars in the low state. Motivated by various observations, we speculate and assume that numerous discrete radiation zones throughout the jet of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Hong-Bin Tan , Markus Böttcher

The great power offered by photoionization models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission-line regions has long been mitigated by the fact that very little is known about the spectral energy distribution (SED) between the Lyman limit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Gary Ferland , Chris Done , Chichuan Jin , Hermine Landt , Martin Ward

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 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

Previous studies on the fitting of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) often apply the external-Compton process to interpret the high-energy peak of low-synchrotron-peaked (LSP) BL Lac objects (LBLs), despite the lack of strong broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-19 Hai-Bin Hu , Hai-Qin Wang , Rui Xue , Fang-Kun Peng , Ze-Rui Wang

Estimates of magnetic field strength in relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei (AGN), obtained by measuring the frequency-dependent radio core location, imply that the total magnetic fluxes in those jets are consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Marek Sikora , Mitchell C. Begelman

Transition blazars exhibit a shift from one subclass to the next during different flux states. It is therefore crucial to study them to understand the underlying physics of blazars. We probe the origin of the multi-wavelength emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 Ashwani Pandey , Pankaj Kushwaha , Paul J. Wiita , Raj Prince , Bozena Czerny , C. S. Stalin

We present the spectral signatures of the Bethe-Heitler pair production ($pe$) process on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars, in scenarios where the hard $\gamma$-ray emission is of photohadronic origin. If relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Petropoulou , A. Mastichiadis

The optical radiation emitted by blazars contains contributions from synchrotron radiation by relativistic electrons in the jets, as well as thermal radiation emitted mainly by the Accretion Disk (AD), the Broad Line Region (BLR) and the…

Unsteady activity of gamma-ray burst sources leads to internal shocks in their emergent relativistic wind. We study the emission spectra from such shocks, assuming that they produce a power-law distribution of relativistic electrons and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ravi Pilla , Abraham Loeb

In this paper we develop the extended jet model of Potter & Cotter to model the simultaneous multi-wavelength spectra of six Compton-dominant blazars. We include an accelerating parabolic base transitioning to a slowly decelerating conical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

Blazars are characterized by relativistic jets that are closely aligned with our line of sight. This results in relativistic beaming, making blazars among the most luminous extragalactic sources across the electromagnetic spectrum, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Stamatios Ilias Stathopoulos , Maria Petropoulou

The broadband spectrum of a BL Lac object, OJ 287, from radio to $\gamma$-rays obtained during a major $\gamma$-ray flare detected by \emph{Fermi} in 2009 are studied to understand the high energy emission mechanism during this episode.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 Pankaj Kushwaha , S. Sahayanathan , K. P. Singh

Calculating the effects of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) is one of the most computationally expensive tasks in accelerator physics. Here, we use convolutional neural networks (CNN's), along with a latent conditional diffusion (LCD)…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Christopher Leon , Petr M. Anisimov , Nikolai Yampolsky , Alexander Scheinker

Lately a specific kind of blazars drew the attention of the gamma-ray astronomy community: the extreme TeV BL Lacs, blazars that present an extremely energetic and hard emission at very high-energy. Explaining their features is still an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Alberto Sciaccaluga , Fabrizio Tavecchio

High-energy emission from blazars is produced by electrons which are either accelerated directly (the assumption of leptonic models of blazar activity) or produced in interactions of accelerated protons with matter and radiation fields (the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , K. Ptitsyna

A Compton/Pair telescope, designed to provide spectral resolved images of cosmic photons from sub-MeV to GeV energies, records a wealth of data in a combination of tracking detector and calorimeter. Onboard event classification can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jan Peter Lommler , Uwe Oberlack