Radiation and polarization signatures of the 3D multizone time-dependent hadronic blazar model
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Zhang, Haocheng
Böttcher, Markus
Diltz, Chris
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IOP Publishing
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We present a newly developed time-dependent three-dimensional multizone hadronic blazar emission model. By coupling a Fokker–Planck-based lepto-hadronic particle evolution code, 3DHad, with a polarization-dependent radiation transfer code, 3DPol, we are able to study the time-dependent radiation and polarization signatures of a hadronic blazar model for the first time. Our current code is limited to parameter regimes in which the hadronic γ-ray output is dominated by proton synchrotron emission, neglecting pion production. Our results demonstrate that the time-dependent flux and polarization signatures are generally dominated by the relation between the synchrotron cooling and the light-crossing timescale, which is largely independent of the exact model parameters. We find that unlike the low-energy polarization signatures, which can vary rapidly in time, the high-energy polarization signatures appear stable. As a result, future high-energy polarimeters may be able to distinguish such signatures from the lower and more rapidly variable polarization signatures expected in leptonic models
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Zhang, H. et al. 2016. Radiation and polarization signatures of the 3D multizone time-dependent hadronic blazar model. Astrophysical journal, 829(2): Article no 69. [https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/69]