Modelling the VHE flare of 3C 279 using one zone leptonic model

Details Modelling the VHE flare of 3C 279 using one zone leptonic model Modelling the VHE flare of 3C 279 using one zone leptonic model

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2442v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We model the simultaneous observations of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 at radio, optical, X-ray and very high energy (VHE) gamma ray energies during 2006 flare using a simple one zone leptonic model. We consider synchrotron emission due to cooling of a non-thermal electron distribution in an equipartition magnetic field and inverse Compton emission due to the scattering off synchrotron photons (SSC) and external soft photons (EC) by the same distribution of electrons. We show that the VHE gamma ray flux cannot be explained by SSC process thereby suggesting the EC mechanism as a plausible emission process at this energy. The EC scattering of BLR photons to VHE energies will be in Klein-Nishina regime predicting a steep spectrum which is contrary to the observations. However the infrared photons from the dusty torus can be boosted to VHE energies with the scattering process remaining in the Thomson regime. Though EC process can successfully explain the observed VHE flux, it require a magnetic field much lower than the equipartition value to reproduce the observed X-ray flux. Hence we attribute the X-ray emission due to SSC process. We derive the physical parameters of 3C 279 considering the above mentioned emission processes. In addition we assume the size of emission region constrained by a variability timescale of one day. This model can successfully reproduce the broadband spectrum of 3C 279 but predicts substantially large flux at MeV-GeV energies.

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