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Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

We present the results of an extensive analysis of the optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray data collected from the observations of the BL Lac objects prototype BL Lacertae carried out over a period of nearly 13 years, between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Sahakyan , P. Giommi

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

We discuss here constraints on the particle acceleration models from the observed gamma-ray bursts spectra. The standard synchrotron shock model assumes that some fraction of available energy is given instantaneously to the electrons which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Juri Poutanen , Boris E. Stern

Jet models for the high-energy emission of Galactic X-ray binary sources have regained significant interest with detailed spectral and timing studies of the X-ray emission from microquasars, the recent detection by the HESS collaboration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Swati Gupta , Markus Boettcher , Charles D. Dermer

Multiband optical photometry data of blazar S5 0716+714 obtained from 2002 to 2019 reveal stable color index change with flux variability. We analyzed this trend under variability caused by the Doppler factor change in the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Mark A. Gorbachev , Marina S. Butuzova , Sergey G. Sergeev , Sergey V. Nazarov , Alexey V. Zhovtan

Blazars are a subclass of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), where the jet is aligned close to the line of sight. Blazars emission is dominated by non-thermal processes, where Doppler boosted radiation originates from a relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-19 Jakub Juryšek , Vitalii Sliusar , Dimitri Moulin , Roland Walter

It is surprising to find a fact for migration in the peak positions of synchrotron spectra energy distribution component during in the activity epochs of Mrk 421, accompanying with an orphan flaring at the X-ray and GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Y. G. Zheng , C. Y. Yang , Shi-Ju Kang , J. M. Bai

Blazars are highly variable and display complex characteristics. A key characteristic is the flux probability distribution function or flux PDF whose shape depends upon the form of the underlying physical process driving variability. The BL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-09 Nachiketa Chakraborty

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

The author presents a model for variability of the flux and polarization of blazars in which turbulent plasma flowing at a relativistic speed down a jet crosses a standing conical shock. The shock compresses the plasma and accelerates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alan P. Marscher

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

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 propose a scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), BL Lacs, low synchrotron, or high synchrotron peaked objects according to a varying mix of the Doppler boosted radiation from the jet, the emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , G. Polenta , S. Turriziani , V. D'Elia , S. Piranomonte

Blazars are highly variable, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with jets oriented at a small angle to the line of sight. The observed emission of these sources covers the whole electromagnetic spectrum from radio frequencies up to the high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Alicja Wierzcholska

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

We study the variation of the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 as a function of source activity, from quiescent to flaring. Through chi-square-minimization we model eight simultaneous SED datasets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Elizabeth Rivers , Richard Rothschild , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Time-dependent injection can cause non-linear cooling effects, which lead to a faster energy loss of the electrons in jets. The most obvious result is the appearance of unique breaks in the SED, which would normally be attributed to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-16 Michael Zacharias

Unsteady activity of gamma-ray burst sources leads to internal shocks in their emergent relativistic wind. We study the emission spectra from such shocks, assuming that they produce a power-law distribution of relativistic electrons and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ravi Pilla , Abraham Loeb

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