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This is the process occurring when the very same electrons produce synchrotron photons, and then they Compton scatter them at high energies. This chapter is devoted to discuss the diagnostic power of this process, and in particular how to use it to set a limit on the relativistic motion of the source.
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Ghisellini, G. (2013). Synchrotron Self-Compton. In: Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 873. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00612-3_6
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