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Constraints on the emission region of 3C 279 during strong flares in 2014 and 2015 through VHE γ-ray observations with H.E.S.S.
(EDP Sciences, 2019)
The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 is known to exhibit pronounced variability in the high-energy (100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) γ-ray band, which is continuously monitored with Fermi-LAT. During two periods of high activity ...
Cloud ablation by a relativistic jet and the extended flare in CTA 102 in 2016 and 2017
(IOP, 2017)
In late 2016 and early 2017, the flat spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 exhibited a very strong and long-lasting
outburst. The event can be described by a roughly two-month long increase of the baseline flux in the monitored
energy ...
Gamma-gamma absorption in the broad line region radiation fields of gamma-ray blazars
(IOP Publishing, 2016)
The expected level of γγ absorption in the Broad Line Region (BLR) radiation field of γ-ray loud Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) is evaluated as a function of the location of the γ-ray emission region. This is done ...
H.E.S.S. observations of the Crab during its March 2013 GeV gamma-ray flare
(EDP Sciences, 2014)
Context. On March 4, 2013 the Fermi-LAT and AGILE reported a flare from the direction of the Crab nebula in which the high-energy (HE; E > 100 MeV) flux was six times above its quiescent level. Simultaneous observations ...
The extended flare in CTA 102 in 2016 and 2017 within a hadronic model through cloud ablation by the relativistic jet
(IOP Publishing, 2019)
The flat-spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 (redshift 1.037) exhibited a tremendously bright four-month-long outburst from late 2016 to early 2017. In a previous paper, we interpreted the event as the ablation of a gas cloud ...
Probing the emission mechanism and magnetic field of neutrino blazars with multiwavelength polarization signatures
(IOP Publishing, 2019)
The characteristic two-component blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) can be of either leptonic and/or hadronic origins. The potential association of the high-energy neutrino event IceCube-170922A with the flaring ...
Cascading constraints from neutrino-emitting blazars: the case of TXS 0506+056
(IOP Publishing, 2019)
We present a procedure to generally constrain the environments of neutrino-producing sites in photomeson production models of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where any origin of the dominant target photon field can ...
Polarization signatures of relativistic magnetohydrodynamic shocks in the blazar emission region. I. Force-free helical magnetic fields
(IOP, 2016)
The optical radiation and polarization signatures in blazars are known to be highly variable during flaring activities. It is frequently argued that shocks are the main driver of the flaring events. However, the spectral ...
Leptonic and lepto-hadronic modeling of the 2010 November flare from 3C 454.3
(AAS, 2016)
In this study, we use a one-zone leptonic and a lepto-hadronic model to investigate the multi-wavelength emission and prominent flare of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 in 2010 November. We perform a parameter study ...
Relativistic shear flow between electron-ion and electron-positron plasmas and astrophysical applications
(IOP, 2017)
We present particle-in-cell simulation results of relativistic shear boundary layers between electron–ion and
electron–positron plasmas and discuss their potential applications to astrophysics. Specifically, we find that ...