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Soft X-ray precursors of the non-thermal flares in blazars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

R. Moderski ,
M. Sikora ,
G. M. Madejski  and
T. Kamae
R. Moderski
Affiliation:
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18,00-716 Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected]
M. Sikora
Affiliation:
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18,00-716 Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
G. M. Madejski
Affiliation:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
T. Kamae
Affiliation:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Popular internal shock models, developed to explain the production of high energy flares in blazar jets, involve collisions between local overdensities of matter being ejected by a central engine and moving along the jet with different velocities. Prior to such collisions, the matter is relatively cold and therefore does not produce intrinsic non-thermal radiation. However, due to Comptonization of external radiation by cold electrons, the presence of such matter should be apparent by prominent precursor soft X-ray flares. We discuss the predicted properties of such precursors.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS222 , March 2004 , pp. 345 - 346
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© 2004 International Astronomical Union