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Decomposing blazar spectra into lepto-hadronic emission components

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-12-18 v1

Abstract

Recently reported coincidences between high-energy neutrino events and major blazar outbursts reinforce the relevance of lepto-hadronic emission models for blazars. We study the influence of physical parameters on the neutrino output modeling blazar spectral energy distributions self-consistently assuming a relativistically propagating acceleration zone surrounded by a larger cooling zone. We find that the gross features of the spectral energy distribution can readily be explained with the model. A rigorous test requires time-resolved measurements of blazar spectral energy distributions during an outburst and high-statistics neutrino measurements to discriminate the leptonic and hadronic emission components.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05540,
  title  = {Decomposing blazar spectra into lepto-hadronic emission components},
  author = {A. Gokus and S. Richter and F. Spanier and M. Kreter and M. Kadler and K. Mannheim and J. Wilms},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05540},
  year   = {2018}
}

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IBWS Proceedings, 6 pages, 4 figures

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