Vol 24, No 12

Revisit the γ-Ray Flare Associated with Blazar Mrk 421

Xiang-Tao Zeng, Ze-Yuan Tang and Jun-Hui Fan

Abstract

A Very High-energy (VHE) flare was observed by Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes on MJD 57788. This VHE flare was characterized by increased VHE flux and short timescales. In this study, we used one-zone synchrotron self-Compton, two-zone, and spine/layer models to explore this VHE flare's origin. The results indicate that this γ-ray flare can be explained by Inverse Compton Scattering radiation from the layer contributed gamma radiation and results in the γ-ray flare in a different way than the two-zone model. The difference between the two models lies in the performance of spectral energy distribution after γ-ray flare as well as a possible difference in the timescales of the flare.

Keywords

Key words: radiation mechanisms: non-thermal – (galaxies:) BL Lacertae objects: individual (Mrk 421) – galaxies: jets

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