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The variety of extreme blazars in the AstroSat view

Michael Zacharias
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Sunil Chandra
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Markus Boettcher
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Iurii Sushch
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Extreme blazars have exceptionally hard intrinsic X-ray/TeV spectra and extreme peak energies in their spectral energy distribution (SED). Observational evidence suggests that the non-thermal emission from extreme blazars is typically non-variable. We aim to explore X-ray and GeV observational features of a variety of extreme blazars and also aim to test the applicability of various blazar emission models that could explain the very hard TeV spectra. We perform X-ray analysis of AstroSat and Swift-XRT data, along with gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT, for sources; 1ES 0120+340, RGB J0710+591, 1ES 1101-232, 1ES 1741+196 and 1ES 2322-409. We employ three models: 1) a steady-state one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) code, 2) another leptonic scenario of co-accelerated electrons and protons on multiple shocks, applied only on the extreme-TeVsources and 3) a one-zone hadro-leptonic (OneHaLe) code. The hadro-leptonic code is used twice to explain the gamma-ray emission process: proton synchrotron and synchrotron emission of secondary pairs. Our X-ray analysis provides well-constrained estimates of the synchrotron peak energies for both 1ES0120+340 and 1ES1741+196. The multi-epoch X-ray and GeV data reveal spectral and flux variabilities in RGB J0710+591 and 1ES 1741+196, even on time scales of days to weeks. As anticipated, the one-zone SSC model adequately reproduces the SEDs of regular HBLs but encounters difficulties in explaining the hardest TeV emission. Hadronic models offer a reasonable fit to the hard TeV spectrum, though with the trade-off of requiring extreme jet powers. On the other hand, the lepto-hadronic scenario faces additional challenges in fitting the GeV spectra of extreme-TeV sources. Finally, e-p co-acceleration scenario naturally accounts for the observed hard electron distributions and effectively matches the hardest TeV spectrum of RGB J0710+591 and 1ES 1101-232.
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Pranjupriya Goswami, Michael Zacharias, Andreas Zech, Sunil Chandra, Markus Boettcher, et al.. The variety of extreme blazars in the AstroSat view. Astron.Astrophys., 2024, 682, pp.A134. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/202348121⟩. ⟨hal-04323960⟩
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