Academic literature on the topic 'Synchrotron Self Compton (SSC)'

Blazars are among the most violent sources in the cosmos exhibiting flaring states with remarkably different variability time scales. Especially rapid flares with flux doubling time scales of the order of minutes have been puzzling for quite some time. Many modeling attempts use the well known linear and steady-state scenario for the cooling and emission processes in the jet, albeit the obvious strongly time-dependent nature of flares. Due to the feedback of the self-produced synchrotron radiation with additional scattering by the relativistic electrons, the synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) effect is inherently time-dependent. Recently, an analytical analysis on the effects of this nonlinear behavior has been presented. Here, we summarize these results concerning the effect of the time-dependent SSC cooling on the spectral energy distribution (SED), and the synchrotron lightcurves of blazars. For that, we calculated analytically the synchrotron, SSC and external Compton (EC) component of the SED, giving remarkably different spectral features compared to the standard linear approach. The resulting fluxes strongly depend on the parameters, and SSC might have a strong effect even in sources with strong external photon fields (such as FSRQs). For the synchrotron lightcurve we considered the effects of retardation, including the geometry of the source. The retardation might smear out some effects of the time-dependent cooling, but since lightcurves and SEDs have to be fitted simultaneously with the same set of parameters, the results give nonetheless important clues about the source. Thus, we argue for a wide utilization of the time-dependent treatment in modeling (especially rapid) blazar flares, since it accounts for features in the SED and the lightcurves that are usually accounted for by introducing several breaks in the electron distribution without any physical justification.

The origin of gamma-ray flares of blazars is still an open issue in jet physics. In this work, we reproduce the multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) of flat-spectrum radio quasars 3C 454.3 under a one-zone leptonic scenario, investigate the variation of the physical parameters in different activity states, and analyze the possible origin of its γ-ray outburst. Based on the analysis of multiwavelength quasi-simultaneous observations of 3C 454.3 during MJD 55,400–56,000, we consider that the radiation includes synchrotron (Syn), synchrotron self-Compton (SSC), and external Compton (EC) radiations by the simulation, and the seed photons of the external Compton component mainly comes from the broad-line region and dusty molecular torus. The model results show that: (1) We can well reproduce the multiwavelength quasi-simultaneity SED of 3C 454.3 in various activity states by using a one-zone Syn+SSC+EC model. (2) By comparing the physical model parameters of the bright and the quiescent states, we suggest that this γ-ray flaring activity is more likely to be caused by the increase in the doppler factor.

Abstract The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) Collaboration reported the Second Gamma-ray Burst Catalog (2FLGC), which comprises a subset of 29 bursts with photon energies above 10 GeV. Although the standard synchrotron forward-shock model has successfully explained the gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations, energetic photons higher than 10 GeV from these transient events can hardly be described in this scenario. We present the closure relations (CRs) of the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) afterglow model in the adiabatic and radiative scenario, and when the central engine injects continuous energy into the blast wave to study the evolution of the spectral and temporal indexes of those bursts reported in 2FLGC. We consider the SSC afterglow model evolving in stellar-wind and the interstellar medium (ISM), and the CRs as a function of the radiative parameter, the energy injection index, and the electron spectral index for 1 < p < 2 and 2 ≤ p. We select all GRBs that have been modeled with both a simple or a broken power law in the 2FLGC. We found that the CRs of the SSC model can satisfy a significant fraction of the burst that cannot be interpreted in the synchrotron scenario, even though those that require an intermediate density profile (e.g., GRB 130427A) or an atypical fraction of total energy given to amplify the magnetic field (ε B ). The value of this parameter in the SSC model ranges (ε B ≈ 10−5 − 10−4) when the cooling spectral break corresponds to the Fermi-LAT band for typical values of GRB afterglow. The analysis shows that the ISM is preferred for the scenario without energy injection and the stellar-wind medium for an energy injection scenario.

ABSTRACT Synchrotron radiation from a decelerating blastwave is a widely accepted model of radio to X-ray afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GeV gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the duration of which extends beyond the prompt gamma-ray emission phase is also compatible with broad features of afterglow emission. We revisit the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission model from a decelerating blastwave to fit multiwavelength data from three bright GRBs, namely GRB 190114C, GRB 130427A, and GRB 090510. We constrain the afterglow model parameters using the simultaneous fit of the spectral energy distributions at different times and light curves at different frequencies for these bursts. We find that a constant density interstellar medium is favoured for the short GRB 090510, while a wind-type environment is favoured for the long GRB 130427A and GRB 190114C. The sub-TeV component in GRB 190114C detected by MAGIC is the SSC emission in our modelling. Furthermore, we find that the SSC emission in the Thomson regime is adequate to fit the spectra and light curves of GRB 190114C. For the other two GRBs, lacking sub-TeV detection, the SSC emissions are also modelled in the Thomson regime. For the model parameters we have used, the γγ attenuation in the blastwave is negligible in the sub-TeV range compared to the redshift-dependent γγ attenuation in the extragalactic background light.