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Jets, paving their way outward through the inner regions of active nuclei, Compton-interact with the UV radiation from an accretion disc and broad emission line region. We calculate the predicted properties of the resulting spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Sikora , Greg Madejski

Despite numerous studies, the origin of the gamma-ray emission from blazars is still debated, in particular whether it is produced by leptonic or hadronic processes. In this study, we are testing the leptonic scenario for the Flat Spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Anton Dmytriiev , Markus Boettcher , Thabiso O. Machipi

We report the variation of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars as a function of source activity, based on available, simultaneous multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of BL Lac objects. We use a fully automatized \c{hi}2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Fabrizio Tavecchio

The blazar 3C 279 is well known for its rapid and large-amplitude variability. On 20 December 2013, the source exhibited an orphan {\gamma}-ray flare characterized by a flux-doubling timescale of a few hours, a very hard spectrum, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Sébastien Le Bihan , Anton Dmytriiev , Andreas Zech

High-energy emission (from the X-ray through the gamma-ray band) of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars is widely associated with the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of ambient photons, produced either by the accretion disk or by the Broad Line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini

Blazars, a unique class of active galactic nuclei, exhibit highly variable emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. This variability frequently manifests as intense flaring events, sparking an ongoing debate in recent literature about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Pablo Peñil , Nuria Torres-Albà , Alba Rico , Marco Ajello , Sara Buson , Sagar Adhikari

We developed a non-linear Monte Carlo code based on the LP method proposed by Stern et al (1995). We use it to simulate an extended non-thermal X/gamma ray source coupled with a cold accretion disk. The source radiates by inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Julien Malzac , Elisabeth Jourdain

Blazars exhibit multiwavelength variability, a phenomenon whose underlying mechanisms remain elusive. This study investigates the origin of such variability through leptonic blazar emission simulations, focusing on stochastic fluctuations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Hannes Thiersen , Michael Zacharias , Markus Böttcher

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

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

Being dominated by non-thermal (synchrotron and inverse Compton) emission from a relativistic jet, blazars offer important clues to the structure and radiative processes in extragalactic jets. Crucial information is provided by blazars'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rita M. Sambruna

A time-dependent Synchrotron Self Compton model (SSC) which is able to motivate the used electron spectra of many SSC models as a balance of acceleration and radiative losses is introduced. Using stochastic acceleration as well as Fermi-I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-02 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

Blazars are powerful, variable emitters from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Even though the general picture of synchrotron emission at low energies and inverse Compton at the high energy end is well established, many important aspects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , T. Hovatta , O. G. King , R. Reeves

A phenomenological model of X-ray variability of accreting black holes is considered, where the variable emission is attributed to multiple active regions/perturbations moving radially towards the central black hole. The hard X-rays are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. T. Zycki

With their jet pointing towards us, blazars are ideal tools to study the physics and structure of extragalactic jets. Their powerful jets are cosmic particle accelerators and are alleged to be one of the production sites of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Claudia M. Raiteri

In this paper we investigate the properties of a sample of six BL Lacs by fitting their spectra using our inhomogeneous jet model with an accelerating, magnetically dominated, parabolic base, which transitions to a slowly decelerating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

We present results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy distribution of a pulsar wind nebula by solving a Fokker-Planck-type transport equation and calculating inverse Compton and synchrotron emissivities. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Carlo van Rensburg , Paulus Kruger , Christo Venter

We present a new approach in modelling the polarized Galactic synchrotron emission in the microwave range (20-100 GHz), where this radiation is expected to play the leading role in contaminating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni

The electron-cyclotron maser instability is widespread in the Universe, producing, e.g., radio emission of the magnetized planets and cool substellar objects. Diagnosing the parameters of astrophysical radio sources requires comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. A. Kuznetsov , V. G. Vlasov

The location of the Gamma-ray emission of powerful blazars is a matter of active debate. Is the location within the UV emitting sub-pc scale broad line region, or farther out at pc scales where the molecular torus IR emission dominates? We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-29 M. Georganopoulos , E. T. Meyer , G. Fossati
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