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Blazars are characterized by large amplitude and fast variability, indicating that the electron distribution is rapidly changing, often on time scales shorter than the light crossing time. We study the time dependent behavior of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Chiaberge , Gabriele Ghisellini

Blazars are characterized by large amplitude and fast variability, indicating that the electron distribution is rapidly changing, often on time scales shorter than the light crossing time. The emitting region is sufficiently compact to let…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco Chiaberge , Gabriele Ghisellini

The jets of blazars are renowned for their multi-wavelength flares and rapid extreme variability; however, there are still some important unanswered questions about the physical processes responsible for these spectral and temporal changes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-30 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , C. Y. Yang , J. M. Bai

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

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 new results of the evolution of the synchrotron peak for Mrk 421 are mostly likely related to the particle acceleration process. In order to account for the above results, we present a model of blazar variability during the flare in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

Blazar flare data show energy-dependent lags and correlated variability between optical/X-ray and GeV-TeV energies, and follow characteristic trajectories when plotted in the spectral-index/flux plane. This behavior is qualitatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Dermer , H. Li , J. Chiang

A simple model for variability in relativistic plasma outflows is studied, in which nonthermal electrons are continuously and uniformly injected in the comoving frame over a time interval dt. The evolution of the electron distribution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles D. Dermer

Multiwavelength observations of blazars such as Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 show that they exhibit strong short time variabilities in flare-like phenomena. Based on the homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and assuming that time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , M. Kusunose

Blazars emit non-thermal radiation in all frequency bands from radio to \gamma-rays. Additionally, they often exhibit rapid flaring events at all frequencies with doubling time scale of the TeV and X-ray flux on the order of minutes, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

We are presenting a detailed parameter study of the time-dependent electron injection and kinematics and the self-consistent radiation transport in jets of intermediate and low-frequency peaked BL Lac objects. Using a time-dependent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Boettcher , J. Chiang

We present a new time-dependent leptonic code that we developed to model the varying multi-wavelength (MWL) emission during blazar flares. In our modeling, we assume that the blazar emission originates from a plasma blob located in the jet,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Dmytriiev , H. Sol , A. Zech

We model the acceleration of electrons at a shock front in a relativistic blazar jet and compute the radiation they emit in a post-shock region which contains a homogeneous magnetic field. The full space, time and momentum dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , F. M. Rieger , A. Mastichiadis

Electromagnetic radiation from blazar jets often displays strong variability, extending from radio to $\gamma$-ray frequencies. In a few cases, this variability has been characterized using Fourier time lags, such as those detected in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Tiffany R. Lewis , Peter A. Becker , Justin D. Finke

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

The second-order Fermi acceleration (Fermi-II) driven by turbulence may be responsible for the electron acceleration in blazar jets. We test this model with time-dependent simulations. The hard electron spectrum predicted by the Fermi-II…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Katsuaki Asano , Fumio Takahara , Masaaki Kusunose , Kenji Toma , Jun Kakuwa

Blazars are characterized by rapid variability at virtually all wavelengths from radio through TeV gamma-rays. The challenge since their discovery has been to understand the origin of their luminous, apparently nonthermal, nuclear emission.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Megan Urry

Electrons emitting non-thermal photons in blazars are possibly accelerated by turbulences developed in jets. In this paper, we consider the case so-called hard-sphere scattering as an interaction model between turbulences and electrons, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Katsuaki Asano , Masaaki Hayashida

Blazars represent dominant population of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources in the Universe. These sources exhibit some characteristic properties like strong and non-thermal continuum emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 K. K. Singh , P. J. Meintjes

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
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