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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 384, 期 1, 页码 L19-L23出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00413.x
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accretion, accretion discs; galaxies : active; BL Lacertae objects : individual : PKS 2155-305; BL Lacertae objects : individual : Mrk 501; galaxies : jets; gamma-rays : observations
We discuss the implications of rapid (few-minute) variability in the TeV flux of blazars, which has been observed recently with the HESS and MAGIC telescopes. The variability time-scales seen in PKS 2155-304 and Mrk 501 are much shorter than inferred light-crossing times at the black hole horizon, suggesting that the variability involves enhanced emission in a small region within an outflowing jet. The enhancement could be triggered by dissipation in part of the black hole magnetosphere at the base of the outflow, or else by instabilities in the jet itself. By considering the energetics of the observed flares, along with the requirement that TeV photons escape without producing pairs, we deduce that the bulk Lorentz factors in the jets must be greater than or similar to 50. The distance of the emission region from the central black hole is less well-constrained. We discuss possible consequences for multi-wavelength observations.
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