On the Location of the Acceleration and Emission Sites in Gamma-Ray Blazars
arXiv:astro-ph/9312052
Abstract
Compton scattering of external radiation by nonthermal particles in outflowing blazar jets is dominated by accretion-disk photons rather than scattered radiation to distances pc from the central engine for standard parameters, thus clarifying the limits of validity of the model by the present authors and the model of Sikora, Begelman, \& Rees. On the basis of contemporaneous Ginga X-ray and EGRET gamma-ray observations, we estimate the radius of 3C 279's gamma-ray photosphere to be smaller than estimated by Blandford. There is thus no need to require that the acceleration and emission sites of gamma-ray blazars to be located farther than gravitational radii from the central engine. We argue that lineless BL Lac objects, rather than quasars, are more likely to be detected in the TeV energy range.
arXiv commentLaTeX, 15 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Supplements (IAU Sumposium 142), NRL-CD-93-007
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