Hadronic gamma-ray emission models

dc.creatorMannheim, Karl
dc.date1996-12-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:22:29Z
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dc.descriptionThe discovery of rapid and simultaneous TeV/optical (UV, X-ray) variability provides strong evidence against the interaction between a thermal radiation field produced by an accretion flow and relativistic electrons in a jet as the origin of the gamma-rays in BL Lacertae objects. Synchrotron-self-Compton scattering (SSC) or proton-initiated cascades (PIC) remain viable mechanisms. The mechanisms predict very different magnetic field strengths and upper cut-off energies in the gamma-ray sources, i.e. the field strengths in SSC models are more than two orders of magnitude lower than in PIC models and the PIC spectra do not cut-off at TeV.
dc.description4 pages, latex, Proc. of the Heidelberg Workshop on Gamma-ray emitting AGN, October 16-18, 1996, eds. J. Kirk and S. Wagner
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612066
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612066
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10893
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleHadronic gamma-ray emission models
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