Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-09-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, 4 figs
Scientific paper
10.1086/303733
Motivated by recent reports of strongly correlated radio and X-ray variability in 3C279 (Grandi, etal 1995), we have computed the relative amplitudes of variations in the synchrotron flux at $\nu$ and the self-Compton X-ray flux at 1 keV ($R(\nu)$) for a homogeneous sphere of relativistic electrons orbiting in a tangled magnetic field. Relative to synchrotron self-Compton scattering without induced Compton scattering, stimulated scattering reduces the amplitude of $R(\nu)$ by as much as an order of magnitude when $\tau_T \gtwid 1$. When $\tau_T$ varies in a fixed magnetic field, $R_{\tau}$ increases monotonically from 0.01 at $\nu_o$, the self-absorption turnover frequency, to $0.5$ at $100 \nu_o$. The relative amplitudes of the correlated fluctuations in the radio-mm and X-ray fluxes from 3C279 are consistent with the synchrotron self-Compton model if $\tau_T$ varies in a fixed magnetic field and induced Compton scattering is the dominant source of radio opacity. The variation amplitudes are are too small to be produced by the passage of a shock through the synchrotron emission region unless the magnetic field is perpendicular to the shock front.
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