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Multiwavelength Properties of Selected High Redshift Blazars

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High-redshift blazars detected in the γ -ray band are the most powerful steady objects in the universe. Multiwavelength observations of these distant objects are of particular interest as they can help to understand the γ -ray evolution of blazars as well as the formation and propagation of relativistic jets in the early epochs of the Universe. In this study, we investigate the origin of broadband emission from 7 blazars with redshifts greater than 2.5 by analyzing the data accumulated with Swift UVOT/XRT and Fermi-LAT. We observe several flaring periods with significant increases in flux and hardening of the photon index in the high-energy γ -ray band for PKS 1830-211 (z = 2.507), LQAC 247-061 (z = 2.578), TXS 0536+145 (z = 2.690), and 4C+41.32 (z = 2.550). PKS 1830-211 was in an extraordinarily bright state on MJD 58596.49 when the 3-day averaged flux increased up to (1.74 ± 0.04)·10–5 photon cm-2 s-1. The X-ray emission of PKS 1830-211 is also strongly variable and is characterized by a hard photon index in the range of 0.34-0.94. To model the time-averaged broadband spectral energy distribution of the considered sources, we used a one-zone leptonic emission mechanism for the inverse Compton scattering, considering both synchrotron and external photons. We estimated the corresponding parameters of the emitting particles as well as the energetics of the jet.

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Published in Astrofizika, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 195-209 (May 2023).

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Harutyunyan, G. Multiwavelength Properties of Selected High Redshift Blazars. Astrophysics 66, 181–193 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-023-09780-4

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