Contribution oral
Multi-TeV flaring from high energy blazars: An evidence of the photohadronic process
Speakers
- Mr. Carlos Eduardo LOPEZ FORTIN
Primary authors
- Dr. Sarira SAHU (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM)
- Mr. Carlos Eduardo LOPEZ FORTIN (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM)
Co-authors
- Dr. Shigehiro NAGATAKI (Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory, RIKEN)
Content
The high energy peaked blazars are known to undergo episodes of flaring in GeV-TeV gamma-rays involving different time scales and the flaring mechanism is not well understood despite long term simultaneous multiwavelength observations. These gamma-rays en route to Earth undergo attenuation by the extra galactic background light. Using the photohadronic model, where the seed photons follow a power-law spectrum and a template extragalactic background light model, we derive a simple relation between the observed multi-TeV gamma-ray flux and the intrinsic flux with a single parameter. We study 42 flaring epochs of 23 blazars and excellent fit to most of the observed spectra are obtained, further supporting the photohadronic origin of multi-TeV gamma-rays. We note that we can also constrain the power spectrum of the seed photons during the flaring period. Moreover for blazars of unknown redshifts, whose multi-TeV flaring spectra are known, stringent bounds on the former can be placed using the photohadronic model.