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Electron Energy Distributions of AGNs in the Thin Synchrotron Limit. I. the Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Luis Salas ,
Irene Cruz-González  and
Luis Carrasco
Luis Salas
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía UNAM, Apdo 70-264 Mexico DF 04510, Mexico
Irene Cruz-González
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía UNAM, Apdo 70-264 Mexico DF 04510, Mexico
Luis Carrasco
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía UNAM, Apdo 70-264 Mexico DF 04510, Mexico

Abstract

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We develop a new method called “Inverse Synchrotron Transform” (IST) to study the spectral energy distributions of AGNs. We demonstrate that it is possible to use Bayes Theorem for conditional probabilities to derive a self-consistent solution for the electron energy distribution (EEDs), starting from the observed spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and the assumption that the only physical process involved is thin synchrotron radiation. We test the IST method and find that it allows to distinguish among different EEDs that produce SEDs which nevertheless seem very similar. We apply the method to multifrequency simultaneous observations of AGNs (paper II, this conference).

Keywords

active galactic nucleimultiwavelength emissionemission processes
Type
Poster Contributions: Emission Processes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 358 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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