Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-07-30
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.301:451,1998
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 pages, 11 figures, uses mn.sty and psfig.tex. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.02032.x
The phenomenology of gamma-ray bright blazars can be accounted for by a sequence in the source power and intensity of the diffuse radiation field surrounding the relativistic jet. Correspondingly, the equilibrium particle distribution peaks at different energies. This leads to a trend in the observed properties: an increase of the observed power corresponds to: 1) a decrease in the frequencies of the synchrotron and inverse Compton peaks; 2) an increase in the ratio of the powers of the high and low energy spectral components. Objects along this sequence would be observationally classified respectively as high frequency BL Lac objects, low frequency BL Lac objects, highly polarized quasars and lowly polarized quasars. The proposed scheme is based on the correlations among the physical parameters derived in the present paper by applying to 51 gamma ray loud blazars two of the most accepted scenarios for the broad band emission of blazars, namely the synchrotron self--Compton and external Compton models, and explains the observational trends presented by Fossati et al. (1998) in a companion paper, dealing with the spectral energy distributions of all blazars. This gives us confidence that our scheme applies to all blazars as a class.
Celotti Annalisa
Comastri Andrea
Fossati Giovanni
Ghisellini Gabriele
Maraschi Laura
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