A pair plasma model for PKS 0208-512

Citation
Iv. Moskalenko et W. Collmar, A pair plasma model for PKS 0208-512, ASTROPHYS L, 39(1-6), 1999, pp. 581-584
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTROPHYSICAL LETTERS & COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN journal
08886512 → ACNP
Volume
39
Issue
1-6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
581 - 584
Database
ISI
SICI code
0888-6512(1999)39:1-6<581:APPMFP>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Assuming that the enhanced MeV emission from the MeV blazar PKS 0208-512 ob served by COMPTEL on occasions is due to annihilation in a pair plasma, we estimate parameters of the annihilation region: its size, the number densit y of particles, and the variability timescale. The values we find are in ac cord with our present-day knowledge of emission mechanisms operating in AGN . The constructed model implies that the blueshifted annihilation emission is an intrinsic property of all AGN jet models. and predicts an anticorrela tion between the high-energy emission and the annihilation flux.