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We have studied the quasi-simultaneous Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) of 48 LBAS blazars, detected within the three months of the LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) data taking period, combining Fermi and Swift data with radio NIR-Optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Tramacere , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , N. Mazziotta , C. Monte

We have collected a large amount of multifrequency data for the objects in the Metsahovi Radio Observatory BL Lacertae sample and computed their spectral energy distributions (SED). This is the first time the SEDs of BL Lacs have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Nieppola , M. Tornikoski , E. Valtaoja

Energy equipartition and the energy budget in the jet are import issues for the radiation mechanism of blazars. Early work predominantly concentrated on flat-spectrum radio quasars and a limited number of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 X. Z. Zhao , H. Y. Yang , Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang

We investigate the origin of high-energy emission in blazars within the context of the leptohadronic one-zone model. We find that $\gamma$-ray emission can be attributed to synchrotron radiation either from protons or from secondary leptons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Apostolos Mastichiadis , Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis

We examine the potential multi-messenger role of BL Lac objects emitting at high energy (so-called HBL) focusing on the limits on the energy density of soft radiation in the jet frame, a critical parameter which regulates the proton cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 F. Tavecchio , F. Oikonomou , C. Righi

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

Current Cherenkov telescopes have identified a population of ultra-high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (UHBLs), also known as extreme blazars, that exhibit exceptionally hard TeV spectra, including 1ES 0229+200, 1ES 0347-121, RGB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-13 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , C. Boisson , S. Inoue

BL Lac objects are the best candidates to study the jet properties since their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are less contaminated by the emission from the accretion disk and external Compton processes. We compile the broadband SEDs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Jin-Ming Bai

High synchrotron peak (HSP; $\nu_{sy}^{pk} > 10^{15}$ Hz) BL Lacs are some of the most extreme accelerators in the Universe. Those found at high redshifts ($z>1$) challenge our understanding of blazar evolution models and are crucial for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 M. Rajagopal , L. Marcotulli , M. Ajello , A. Kaur , V. Paliya , D. Hartmann

We investigate the relationship between accretion rates and the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of BL Lac objects, using a sample of objects for which published information on the host galaxies, emission-line luminosities, and peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian-Min Wang , Ruediger Staubert , Luis Ho

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

The proton synchrotron radiation is considered as the origin of high-energy emission of blazars at times. However, extreme physical parameters are often required. In this work, we propose an analytical method to study the parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Rui Xue , Shao-Teng Huang , Hu-Bing Xiao , Ze-Rui Wang

PKS 1424+240 is a distant very high energy gamma-ray BL Lac object with redshift $z=0.601$. It was found that pure synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process normally need extreme input parameters (e.g., very low magnetic field intensity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Shiju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu , Liang Chen

The spectral energy distribution of blazars around the synchrotron peak can be well described by the log-parabolic model that has three parameters: peak energy ($E_\textrm{p}$), peak luminosity ($L_\textrm{p}$) and the curvature parameter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Yijun Wang , Shifu Zhu , Yongquan Xue , Minfeng Gu , Shanshan Weng , Huynh Anh N. Le

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

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

The overall spectra (SED) of blazars, from radio to gamma-ray energies, seem to obey well defined trends, with a continuity of properties between blazars of different classes. To quantify this statement we can either investigate their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriele Ghisellini

The April 1997 giant flare of Mkn 501 is modelled by a stationary Synchrotron-Proton-Blazar model. Our derived model parameters are consistent with X-ray-to-TeV-data in the flare state and diffusive shock acceleration of electron and proton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Muecke , R. J. Protheroe

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

Blazars are promising candidates for high energy neutrino sources, yet the physical origin of their neutrino emission remains uncertain. In this work, we extend our previous study by modeling the broadband spectral energy distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao Ouyang , Lili Yang , Jingtian Zhu , Minfeng Gu , Liang Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Zhijian Luo , Junhui Fan