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I am not the best person to reference on this. I am still trying to clarify my understanding
describe synch. from a power law e- population (fig. 6.12):
low-f rise is nu^+5/2 (eqn. 6.54; optically thick therefore source function)
and decay is nu^-(p-1)/2 (eqn 6.22a; optically think therefore emission function)
… but that's not the applicable spectrum:
The important paper here is Gabriele Ghisellini, Annalisa Celotti and Davide Lazzati MNRAS 2000.
emission is from a quasi-monoenergetic e- population;
F_nu ~ nu^+1/3 up to nu_peak
nu > nu_peak they don't say.
However, with reasonable consideration of cooling, you get a nu^-1/2 in the X-gamma spectrum, because the cooling frequency is now ~ eV.
SSC
Zou, Piran, and Sari 09 are a good reference for SSC http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/692/2/L92/pdf/apjl_692_2_92.pdf