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The proton blazar.
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In this paper, relativistic protons are considered in the context of the Blandford & Konigl (1979) model of compact radio jets which are assumed to be responsible for the nonthermal emission component of flat-spectrum quasars and BL Lacertids.Abstract:
Recent gamma ray detections and the radio/X-ray correlation of extragalactic flat-spectrum radio sources make the existence of an ultra-relativistic proton population in jets very probable. The protons with maximum Lorentz factors in the range 10 9 -10 11 generate hard photons with energies from keV to TeV via pion and pair photoproduction and subsequent synchrotron cascade reprocessing. In this paper relativistic protons are considered in the context of the Blandford & Konigl (1979) model of compact radio jets which are assumed to be responsible for the nonthermal emission component of flat-spectrum quasars and BL Lacertids. The baryons are simply added to the electrons considered as the only radiative agent in the original workread more
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