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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 ...
The 2010 very high energy γ-ray flare and 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87
(IOP Publishing, 2012)
The giant radio galaxy M 87 with its proximity (16 Mpc), famous jet, and very massive black hole ((3 – 6) × 109 M☉) provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origin of very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the minimum jet power of TeV BL Lac Objects in the p–γ model
(IOP Publishing, 2019)
We study the requirement of the jet power in the conventional p–γ models (photopion production and Bethe–
Heitler pair production) for TeV BL Lac objects. We select a sample of TeV BL Lac objects whose spectral ...
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 ...
Characterizing the γ-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
(EDP Sciences, 2017)
Studying the temporal variability of BL Lac objects at the highest energies provides unique insights into the extreme physical processes occurring in relativistic jets and in the vicinity of super-massive black holes. To ...
EBL inhomogeneity and hard-spectrum gamma-ray sources
(IOP Publishing, 2017)
The unexpectedly hard very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray spectra of a few distant blazars have been interpreted as evidence of a reduction of the γγ opacity of the universe due to the interaction of VHE γ-rays with ...