S.Q. Lim, RSAA Summer Intern Talk (2015)

Blazar Modeling
Blazars are one of the most energetic astronomical phenomena observed in our universe and was detected to emit radiation in the TeV range by instruments like H.E.S.S. It is puzzling and astonishing how blazars are capable of achieving such high energy scales. Such scales were only recently made achievable by particle accelerators like the LHC, which took mankind decades to build. In this presentation I will present to you the synchrotron self-Compton model which attempts to explain the mechanism that allows blazars to achieve such energies and then compare actual spectral emission data from several well-known blazars to the predictions made by this model.