1. Two-component TeV Emissions for Blazars.
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Zhang, Zhuang, Zeng, Xiangtao, Pei, Zhiyuan, Xiao, Hubing, Ye, Xuhong, and Fan, Junhui
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ENERGY bands , *ACTIVE galactic nuclei - Abstract
For blazars, its radio emissions are composed of two components. In the high energy bands, Tera-electronvolts (TeV; 1012electronvolts) emissions were detected from some blazars. Does the TeV emission also consist of two components? To investigate the TeV emission component, we compiled a sample of 51 TeV blazars with available radio core dominance parameters and applied a two-component (the beamed and the unbeamed) model to study the composition of blazar TeV emission. We obtained the core-dominance parameter at the TeV band through applying a relativistic beaming model, and found that the average TeV core-dominance parameter is log R TeV BL = 〠3.12 ± 2.83 〉 for 46 BL Lacs, and that is log R TeV FSRQ = 〠4.80 ± 1.76 〉 for 5 FSRQs, which shows an indication that the core dominance parameter in BL Lacs is smaller than that in FSRQs. For the three subclasses of BL Lacsâ€"high synchrotron peaked BL Lacs(HBLs), intermediate synchrotron peaked BL Lacs(IBLs) and low synchrotron peaked(LBLs), log R TeV HBL is smaller than log R TeV IBL and log R TeV LBL . Our results suggest that the blazar TeV emission from the core is thousands times stronger than from the extended region and the TeV emission is more core-dominated for the lower synchrotron peaked sources. In addition, a significant correlation between the TeV core-dominance parameter ( log R TeV ) and the radio one ( log R radio ) log R TeV = (2.56 ± 0.08) log R radio + 0.99 , is obtained suggesting that the TeV emission is beamed and the TeV core-dominance parameter is an indicator of beaming effect at the TeV bands, and that the TeV emission has stronger beaming effect than the radio emission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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