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The broadband spectral energy distribution(SED) of blazars is generally interpreted as radiation arising from synchrotron and inverse Compton mechanisms.Traditionally, the underlying source parameters responsible for these emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Sahayanathan , A. Sinha , R. Misra

The Fisher information $F$ gives a limit to the ultimate precision achievable in a phase estimation protocol. It has been shown recently that the Fisher information for a linear two-mode interferometer cannot exceed the number of particles…

We present the results of our study of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a sample of ten low- to intermediate-synchrotron-peaked blazars. We investigate some of the physical parameters most likely responsible for the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bindu Rani , Alok C. Gupta , R. Bachev , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , F. D'Ammando , P. J. Wiita , M. A. Gurwell , E. Ovcharov , B. Mihov , S. Boeva , S. Peneva

Leptonic one-zone radiation models are commonly used to describe multi-wavelength data and explore the physical properties of high-energy sources, such as active galactic nuclei. However, these models often require a large number of free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 F. Apel , A. Omeliukh , A. Franckowiak , J. Lederer

We report on the variations of the physical parameters of the jet observed in the blazar Mrk 421, and discuss the origin of X-ray flares in the jet, based on the analysis of the several spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The SEDs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yurika Yamada , Makoto Uemura , Ryosuke Itoh , Yasushi Fukazawa , Masanori Ohno , Fumiya Imazato

Exceptional points (EPs) exhibit strongly enhanced spectral responses and are therefore promising candidates for sensing applications. Whether these non-Hermitian degeneracies provide a genuine advantage in the quantum regime has been the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jan Wiersig , Stefan Rotter

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan , Jianghe Yang , Denis Bastieri

Aiming to delineate the physical framework of blazars, we present an effective method to estimate four important parameters based on the idea proposed by \citet{BK95}, including the upper limit of central black hole mass $M$, the Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan , Jianghe Yang , Danyi Huang , Ziyan Li

Fisher information, lies at the heart of parameter estimation theory, was recently found to have a close relation with multipartite entanglement (Pezz\'{e} and Smerzi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 100401). We use Fisher information to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 Jian Ma , Xiaoguang Wang

The dynamics of a charged two-qubit system prepared initially in a maximum entangled state is discussed, where each qubit interacts independently with a dephasing channel. The Fisher information is used to estimate the channel and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Hamada El-Shiekh Nour Zidan , Nasser Metwally

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy contains information on the galaxy's physical properties, and multi-wavelength observations are needed in order to measure these properties via SED fitting. In planning these surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Viviana Acquaviva , Eric Gawiser , Steven J. Bickerton , Norman A. Grogin , Yicheng Guo , Seong-Kook Lee

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

In this paper, we study an asymptotic approximation of the Fisher information for the estimation of a scalar parameter using quantized measurements. We show that, as the number of quantization intervals tends to infinity, the loss of Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Rodrigo Cabral Farias , Jean-Marc Brossier

We consider the constraints on the physical parameters of a homogeneous SSC model that can be derived from the spectral shape and variability of TeV blazars. Assuming that the relativistic electron spectrum is a broken power law, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , G. Ghisellini

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of a few blazars using multi-wavelength observations. Rapid flux variations are quantified via the doubling/halving timescale method, revealing the shortest variability timescales of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-17 Ajay Sharma , Aishwarya Sarath , Sakshi Chaudhary , Debanjan Bose

Relativistic effects dominate the emission of blazar jets complicating our understanding of their intrinsic properties. Although many methods have been proposed to account for them, the variability Doppler factor method has been shown to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , D. Huppenkothen , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead

The electronic local density of states of solids, if normalized correctly, represents the probability density that the electron at a specific position has a particular energy. Because this probability density can vary in space in disordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Lucas A. Oliveira , Wei Chen

We employ a unified framework for computing the information capacity of biological signaling systems using Fisher Information. By deriving closed-form or easily computable information capacity formulas, we quantify how well different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Michał Komorowski

Blazar spectral models generally have numerous unconstrained parameters, leading to ambiguous values for physical properties like Doppler factor delta or fluid magnetic field B'. To help remedy this problem, a few modifications of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Charles D. Dermer , Matteo Cerruti , Benoit Lott , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech
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