External photon fields in Fermi bright blazars

The external Compton (EC) model is used to study the high energy emission of some blazars, in which the external photon field is considered to dominate inverse Compton radiation. We explore the properties of the external photon field through analyzing the FERMI LAT bright AGN sample within three mon...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in astronomy and astrophysics 2011-08, Vol.11 (8), p.902-908
Hauptverfasser: Gao, Xiao-Yan, Wang, Jian-Cheng, Zhou, Ming
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Zusammenfassung:The external Compton (EC) model is used to study the high energy emission of some blazars, in which the external photon field is considered to dominate inverse Compton radiation. We explore the properties of the external photon field through analyzing the FERMI LAT bright AGN sample within three months of the start of operations in sky-survey mode. In the sample, assuming the high energy radiation of low synchrotron peaked blazars is from the EC process, we find that the external photon parameter Uext/υext may not be a constant. Calculating synchrotron and inverse Compton luminosity from the quasi-simultaneous broadband spectral energy distributions, we find that they have an approximately linear relation. This indicates that the ratio of external photon and magnetic energy density is a constant in the comoving frame, implying that the Lorentz factor of the emitting blob depends on the external photon field and magnetic field. The result gives a strong constraint on the dynamic jet model.
ISSN:1674-4527
2397-6209
DOI:10.1088/1674-4527/11/8/004