Radiation and polarization signatures of the 3D multizone time-dependent hadronic blazar model

Zhang, Haocheng; Diltz, Chris; Bottcher, Markus

doi:10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/69

Title: Radiation and polarization signatures of the 3D multizone time-dependent hadronic blazar model

Journal Article · Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/69· OSTI ID:1341862

Zhang, Haocheng ^[1]; Diltz, Chris ^[2]; Bottcher, Markus ^[3]

Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
North-West Univ., Potchefstroom (South Africa)

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. Lastly, 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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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1341862

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-16-23435; TRN: US1701617

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 829, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357

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