Predictions of Very High Energy gamma-ray fluxes for three Active Galactic Nuclei

TL;DR

This paper develops a multi-blob synchrotron self-Compton model to predict very high energy gamma-ray fluxes from three active galactic nuclei with extended jets, including M87, Cen A, PKS 0521-36, and 3C 273.

Contribution

It introduces a new model to predict VHE gamma-ray emissions from misaligned blazars with extended jets, based on recent H.E.S.S. observations of M87.

Findings

Predicted VHE fluxes for Cen A, PKS 0521-36, and 3C 273.

Model successfully explains M87's TeV emission.

Provides testable predictions for future observations.

Abstract

M87 is the first extragalactic source detected at the TeV that is not a blazar. To account for the recent observations of M87 made by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescope array, we developed a new multi-blob synchrotron self-Compton model. In the framework of this model, we present here the predictions for the very high energy emission of three active galactic nuclei with extended optical or X-ray jets which could be misaligned blazars, namely Cen A, PKS 0521-36 and 3C 273.