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Radiation Fields in Blazars — a Possible Extension of the Small Scale Symbiosis (Disk/Jet) into a Large Scale (Dust/Dust) Symbiosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Alina-C. Donea  and
Raymond J. Protheroe
Alina-C. Donea*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Raymond J. Protheroe
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

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In blazar models both protons and electrons may be efficiently accelerated in jets and produce γ-rays. Here we discuss the interactions of these γ-rays with different radiation fields. The external radiation fields within a few parsecs from the black hole involved in such interactions could be the direct radiation from the accretion disk coupled with the jet, the infrared radiation from a dusty torus, and the emission line radiation from the broad line region surrounding the accretion disk. The optical thickness for absorption of γ-ray photons in the external radiation fields is analysed for blazars and quasars.

Based on the unification theory of active galactic nuclei we briefly review the evidence for the existence of small scale dust tori in blazars/FR I. We propose that the existing jet–accretion disk symbiosis extrapolates to a large scale symbiosis between other important dusty constituents of the blazar/FR I family.

Keywords

proton blazar modelaccretion disksdust torusbroad line regionjet
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 39 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2002

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