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The broadband emission properties of AGN jets

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arxiv 1101.3284 v1 pith:BCW6Y7LN submitted 2011-01-17 astro-ph.CO

The broadband emission properties of AGN jets

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keywords emissionbroadbandhigh-energyjetspropertiesblazarsgamma-rayhump
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The origin of the high-energy emission of blazars is still a matter of debate. To investigate the emission mechanism of extragalactic outflows and to pin down the location of the emission, we have constructed a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) database covering from the radio to the gamma-ray band for the complete MOJAVE sample, which consists of 135 relativistically beamed AGN with well-studied parsec-scale jets. Typically, the broadband SEDs of blazars shows a double-humped profile. It is believed that the lower-energy hump is due to synchrotron emission from the radio jet, and the higher-energy hump is generated by i) inverse-Compton upscattered seed photons (leptonic), ii) proton-induced shower (hadronic). Combining the results of high-resolution VLBI observations and the gamma-ray properties of the MOJAVE sources, we attempt to reveal the origin of the high-energy emission in relativistic jets, and search for correlations between VLBI and high-energy properties.

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