Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981ap%26ss..79..483g&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 79, no. 2, Oct. 1981, p. 483-490.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Compton Effect, Radiation Sources, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Relativistic Particles, Synchrotron Radiation, Active Galactic Nuclei, Anisotropic Media, Astronomical Models, Electron Scattering, Photons, Quasars
Scientific paper
Models of compact, high brightness temperature sources such as quasars and active galactic nuclei often predict substantial inverse-Compton scattered flux to be produced at high frequencies. As these fluxes are not observed, it is necessary to assume that extreme relativistic and/or anisotropic effects dominate the source. The often used equations to include these effects, however, are derived with several simplifying assumptions, which may not always be consistent with the derived source parameters (for example, the assumption of no time dependence in a violently variable quasar may not be appropriate). An explicit derivation of the dependence of the rate of inverse Compton scattering on anisotropies in the source is therefore here presented to emphasise the importance and number of assumptions required in the derivation.
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