Speaker
Felix Spanier
(North-West University)
Description
Active Galactic Nuclei have been in the focus of gamma-ray telescopes for the past years. With the ever growing sample of AGN the need for physically motivated, self-consistent modeling is also growing.
The major questions to be answered by models are: What are the main constituents of AGN jets? What are the acceleration mechanisms? Are AGN possible accelerators for UHECR and possible source of UHE neutrinos?
We will present new modeling approaches for AGN, which have a focus on the self-consistent approach. Two types of models have emerged from our work: A homogeneous model containing acceleration via Fermi mechanisms, leptonic and photo-hadronic radiation mechanisms and time variability. And a spatially extended model containing the same radiation processes, but a pitch-angle resolved acceleration process.
The results contain the radio signature of extended jets with predictions for the motion of radio cores correlated with TeV emissions and also possible discrimination criteria for hadronic and leptonic radiation models.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 33 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | -- not specified -- |
Primary author
Felix Spanier
(North-West University)
Co-authors
Dr
Matthias Weidinger
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Dr
Stephan Richter
(Universität Würzburg)
