Combined synchrotron and nonlinear synchrotron-self-Compton cooling of relativistic electrons
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Combined synchrotron and nonlinear synchrotron-self-Compton cooling of relativistic electrons
The broadband SEDs of blazars exhibit two broad spectral components which in leptonic emission models are attributed to synchrotron radiation and SSC radiation of relativistic electrons. During high state phases the highfrequency SSC component often dominates over the low-frequency synchrotron component implying that the inverse Compton SSC losses of electrons are at least equal to or greater t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy and Astrophysics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014087