Modeling intermediate bl lac objects detected by veritas

摘要

Modeling implications of recent VERITAS discoveries of Intermediate BL Lac Objects (IBLs) are presented. Leptonic jet models for the IBLs W Comae (z = 0.102) and 3C 66A (z = 0.444) are, in principle, viable with only synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) components, but more plausible parameters can be achieved including an external infrared radiation field as source for Compton upscattering to produce the observed VHE gamma-ray emission. The unknown redshift of PKS 1424+240 makes a theoretical interpretation difficult. A pure SSC model seems to be sufficient to represent its SED, and modeling results favor a low redshift of z ? 0.1.