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The observed log-normal flux distributions in the high energy emission from blazars have been interpreted as being due to variability stemming from non-linear multiplicative processes generated dynamically from the accretion disc. On the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-26 Atreyee Sinha , Rukaiya Khatoon , Ranjeev Misra , Sunder Sahayanathan , Soma Mandal , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Nilay Bhatt

Blazar jet structure can be indirectly resolved by analyzing the multiwavelength variability. In this work, we analyze the long-term variability of blazars in radio, optical and X-ray energies with the Gaussian process (GP) method. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang

The non-linear Compton scattering rate in a rotating electric field is explicitly calculated for the first time. For this purpose, a novel solution to the Klein-Gordon equation in the presence of a rotating electric field is applied. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-14 Erez Raicher , Shalom Eliezer , Arie Zigler

Different works have recently found an increase of the average X-ray-to-radio luminosity ratio with redshift in the blazar population. We evaluate here whether the inverse Compton interaction between the relativistic electrons within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 L. Ighina , A. Caccianiga , A. Moretti , S. Belladitta , R. Della Ceca , A. Diana

We study the production of VHE emission in blazars as a superposition of a steady component from a baryonic jet and a time- dependent contribution from an inner e-e+ beam launched by the black hole. Both primary relativistic electrons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-20 Matías M. Reynoso , Gustavo E. Romero , María C. Medina

The radiation mechanisms responsible for the multiwavelength emission from relativistic jet sources are poorly understood. The modelling of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and light curves alone is not adequate to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-02 Lenté Dreyer , Markus Böttcher

We present long-term multiwavelength observations of blazar CTA 102 ($z=1.037$). Detailed temporal and spectral analyses of $\gamma$-ray, X-ray and UV/optical data observed by {\it Fermi}-LAT, Swift XRT, NuSTAR and Swift-UVOT over a period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan

We present a fully analytical, time-dependent leptonic one-zone model that describes a simplified radiation process of multiple interacting ultrarelativistic electron populations, accounting for the flaring of GeV blazars. In this model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Christian Röken , Florian Schuppan , Katharina Proksch , Sebastian Schöneberg

By implementing the bremsstrahlung with Monte Carlo algorithm into the particle-in-cell code, the bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering can be studied simultaneously in comparison way in the laser plasma interactions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Feng Wan , Chong Lv , Moran Jia , Haibo Sang , Baisong Xie

This paper introduces a kinetic code that simulates gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission from the external forward shock and presents examples of some of its applications. One interesting research topic discussed in the paper is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-24 T. Pennanen , I. Vurm , J. Poutanen

We introduce a methodology for analysis of multiwavelength data from X-ray selected BL Lac (XBL) objects detected in the TeV regime. By assuming that the radio--through--X-ray flux from XBLs is nonthermal synchrotron radiation emitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

We have constructed models of quasi-periodic variability of X-ray emission from accreting compact objects. Assuming a general scenario of a propagation model of variability, with inverse Compton upscatering as the emission mechanism, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. T. Zycki , M. Sobolewska

A semi-classical approach is used to calculate radiation emission in the collision of an electron with an intense focused laser pulse. The results are compared to predictions from the locally constant field and locally monochromatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Christian F. Nielsen , Robert Holtzapple , Ben King

The one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model aims to describe the spectral energy distribution (SED) of BL Lac objects via synchrotron emission by a non-thermal population of electrons and positrons in a single homogeneous emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-19 Matteo Cerruti , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech

Results of a simulation of synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) emission from a rotation-powered pulsar are presented. The radiating particles are assumed to be both accelerated primary electrons and a spectrum of electron-positron pairs produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

New high energy emission features have been recently discovered by the Cherenkov telescopes from active galaxies e.g., a few minutes variability time scale of TeV emission from Mrk 501 and PKS 2155-304, sub-TeV $\gamma$-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Sitarek , W. Bednarek

The broadband SEDs of blazars exhibit two broad spectral components, which in leptonic emission models are attributed to synchrotron radiation and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) radiation of relativistic electrons. During high state phases,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

The main goal of our present work is to provide, for the first time, a simple computational tool that can be used to compute the brightness, the spectral index, the polarization, the time variability and the spectrum of the non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 D. Volpi , L. Del Zanna , E. Amato , N. Bucciantini

[abridged] We present results of modeling the SED and multiwavelength variability of the bright FSRQ PKS1510-089 with our time-dependent multizone Monte Carlo/Fokker-Planck code (Chen et al. 2001). As primary source of seed photons for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Xuhui Chen , Giovanni Fossati , Edison Liang , Markus Boettcher

Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binaries are known to exhibit episodic outbursts, during which accretion and spectral mode distinctively transition between low/hard and high/soft state. X-ray observations during high/soft state occasionally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Keigo Fukumura