Published October 1, 1977
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Radiation from relativistic blast waves in quasars and active galactic nuclei
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Blandford, R. D.
- McKee, C. F.
Abstract
An analysis is presented of the synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation that would be observed from behind a strong, relativistic, spherical shock propagating outwards through an ionized, magnetized medium. It is shown that, under a wide variety of conditions, a large fraction of the total dynamical energy can be dissipated in this manner. Details of the observed spectrum and its variation with time are computed for a selection of simple assumptions about the nature of the initial explosion, the ambient external medium and the relativistic particle spectrum.
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© 1977 Royal Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 1977 February 2; in original form 1976 December 13. ROB gratefully acknowledges support by a Parisot Fellowship at Berkeley, a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, and partial support at Caltech under the National Science Foundation (AST75-01398 AO1]. CFM was supported in part by NSF grant AST75-02181. We thank J. Arons, A. Fabian, G. Field, and M. Rees for helpful discussions and encouragement.Attached Files
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- University of California, Berkeley
- St. John's College, Cambridge
- AST75-01398 AO1
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- AST75-02181
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