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Chair of Astrophysics and Space Physics

2013-01 to 2017-12 | Grant
National Research Foundation of South Africa (Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA)
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Markus Boettcher

WE PROPOSE A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE GAMMA-RAY POLARIZATION SIGNATURES OF VARIOUS BLAZAR EMISSION MODELS, INCLUDING LEPTONIC SYNCHROTRON SELF-COMPTON AND EXTERNAL COMPTON SCENARIOS, AS WELL AS HADRONIC SCENARIOS. WE FOCUS ON THE CRITICAL ENERGY RANGE 50 -

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

IN A CURRENT CYCLE 3 FERMI GI PROJECT, WE ARE CARRYING OUT 2D PIC SIMULATIONS OF THE KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ-LIKE INSTABILITIES DEVELOPING ATTHE JET-SPINE INTERFACE OF RELAIVISTIC JETS WITH A HIGHLY RELATIVISTIC INNER JET (SPINE) SURROUNDED BY A MILDLY-RELATIVIS

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A SELF-CONSISTENT, TIME-DEPENDENT LEPTO-HADRONIC BLAZAR MODEL. OUR PROPOSED FRAMEWORK WILL SELF-CONSISTENTLY INCLUDE FIRST- AND SECOND-ORDER FERMI ACCELERATION OF BOTH LEPTONS AND PROTONS THROUGH SHOCK AND STOCHASTIC ACCELERATION, AN

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

THE FERMI SPECTRA OF SEVERAL LOW- AND INTERMEDIATE-FREQUENCY PEAKED BLAZARS EXHIBIT SHARP SPECTRAL BREAKS AT PHOTON ENERGIES OF A FEW GEV WHICH ARE INCONSISTENT WITH RADIATIVE COOLING OF THE UNDERLYING ELECTRON POPULATION. HERE, WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

THE FERMI SPECTRA OF SEVERAL LOW- AND INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY PEAKED BLAZARS EXHIBIT SHARP SPECTRAL BREAKS AT PHOTON ENERGIES OF A FEW GEV WHICH ARE INCONSISTENT WITH RADIATIVE COOLING OR THE UNDERLYING ELECTRON POPULATION. HERE, WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

MODELS TO EXPLAIN THE OBSERVED SPECTRAL AND VARIABILITY FEATURES OF ASTROPHYSICAL JET SOURCES OF HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF VARIATIONS OF LEPTONIC AND HADRONIC SCENARIOS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED. HOWEVER,

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

OHIO UNIVERSITY LEPTONIC AND HADRONIC JET MODELS OF BLAZARS WE PROPOSE A COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT OF COMPARATIVE LEPTONIC AND HADRONIC MODELING OF SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS AND VARIABILITY OF FERMI-LAT MONITORED BLAZARS. WE HAVE, OVER THE PAST ~15 YEARS,

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

OHIO UNIVERSITY TRIGGERED OBSERVATIONS OF A LAT MONITORED BLAZAR IN QUIESCENCE SUMMARY: MOST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF BLAZARS IS BASED ON MULTIWAVELENGTH CAMPAIGNS IN FLARING STATES. FOR THIS REASON, THE QUIESCENT STATES OF BLAZARS ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. XMM

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

OHIO UNIVERSITY VHE GAMMA-RAY INDUCED CASCADES IN QUASAR AND RADIO GALAXY ENVIRONMENTS THE RECENT DETECTIONS OF THE LOW- AND INTERMEDIATE-FREQUENCY-PEAKED BL LAC OBJECTS AND THE QUASAR 3C279 IN VERY-HIGH-ENERGY (VHE) GAMMA-RAYS RAISED THE QUESTION OF INT

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

NEW GENERATION HIGH-ENERGY SPECTRA OF THE GAMMA-RAY BLAZAR 3C279 WITH XXM-NEWTON, INTEGRAL AND GLAST: WE PROPOSE A 600 KSEC INTEGRAL OBSERVATION OF THE GAMMA-RAY BLAZAR 3C 279 SIMULTANEOUS WITH XMM-NEWTON AND GLAST/LAT. THE MAIN GOAL I

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

''EMISSION LINE FLUX MONITORING OF 5 LAT MONITORED BLAZARS'' WE PROPOSE TO INITIATE A PROGRAM TO MONITOR THE EMISSION LINE FLUX OF 5 PROMINENET BLAZARS ON THE LIST OF LAT MONITORED SOURCES, USING THE 2.4-M TELESCOPE OF THE MDM OBERSERVATORY AT KITT PEAK. O

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Markus Boettcher via DimensionsWizard

MARKUS BOETTCHER, OHIO UNIVERSITY TRIGGERED OBSERVATIONS OF NEW TEV BLAZARS WE PROPOSE XMM TRIGGERED OBSERVATIONS ON ONE OUT OF A SAMPLE OF CANDIDATE BLAZARS FOR TEV EMISSION. OBSERVATIONS WILL BE TRIGGERED FOLLOWING A SOURCE DETECTION BY THE VERITAS Y-RA

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