Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-02-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
35 pages, 18 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/308960
Multiwavelength observations of blazars such as Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 show that they exhibit strong short time variabilities in flare-like phenomena. Based on the homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and assuming that time variability of the emission is initiated by changes in the injection of nonthermal electrons, we perform detailed temporal and spectral studies of a purely cooling plasma system. One important parameter is the total injected energy E and we show how the synchrotron and Compton components respond as E varies. We discuss in detail how one could infer important physical parameters using the observed spectra. In particular, we could infer the size of the emission region by looking for exponential decay in the light curves. We could also test the basic assumption of SSC by measuring the difference in the rate of peak energy changes of synchrotron and SSC peaks. We also show that the trajectory in the photon-index and flux plane evolves clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on the value of E and observed energy bands.
Kusunose Masaaki
Li Handong
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