Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-08-19
PoS(BLAZARS2008)013
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 13 figures, "Workshop on Blazar Variability across the Electromagnetic Spectrum", 2008 April 22-25, Palaiseau, Franc
Scientific paper
Blazars are thought to emit highly-collimated outflows, so-called jets. By their close alignment to our line of sight, relativistic beaming effects enable us to observe these jets over the whole electromagnetic spectrum up to TeV energies, making them ideal laboratories for studying jet physics. In the last years multiwavelength observations of blazars provided us with detailed data sets which helped to characterize the two main components of the non-relativistic emission, peaking in the optical to X-ray and GeV/TeV energy region, respectively. In leptonic acceleration models, they are explained by synchrotron radiation of electrons and inverse-Compton emission from the same electron population and thus, correlations of both emission regimes are expected. We review recent observational results on the presence and absence of such correlations in blazars, and discuss constraints on emission models by quantitative correlation analyses.
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