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The blazar zone: Issues and recent developments

2017

6 pages

Part of Proceedings, 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories (MG14) (In 4 Volumes) : Rome, Italy, July 12-18, 2015, 3080-3085

Contribution to:

- MG14
, 3080-3085

Published: 2017

DOI:

10.1142/9789813226609_0390

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Abstract: (World Scientific)

The location of the main emitting region responsible for the bulk of the Blazar emission is a puzzling issue in our understanding of jetted Active Galactic Nuclei. Fast flares and a high Compton dominance are more easily explained if the gamma-ray zone is well inside the Broad Line Region (BLR), while the absence of γ-γ absorption features in the Fermi-LAT spectra as well as the detection at Very High Energies (VHE) of some FSRQ put the blazar zone at much larger distances along the jet, beyond the BLR. The latter seems now to be the most typical behavior in FSRQ, questioning SED models based on the external Compton process on BLR photons.

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