NASA NTRS · 19920012674
Gamma rays from extragalactic radio sources
Abstract
It is proposed that the important connection between 3C 273 and 3C 279, the first two extragalactic sources detected at greater than 100 MeV energies, is their superluminal nature. In support of this conjecture, we propose a radiation mechanism that focuses gamma rays in the superluminal direction, due to Compton scattering of accretion-disk photons by relativistic nonthermal electrons in the jet.
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Dermer, Charles D., Schlickeiser, Reinhard, Mastichiadis, Apostolos. 1992-02-01. Gamma rays from extragalactic radio sources. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19920012674
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