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Blazar jet physics in the age of Fermi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2011

Charles D. Dermer
Charles D. Dermer*
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7653, 4555 Overlook Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20375-5352USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The impact of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on blazar research is reviewed. This includes a brief description of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, a summary of the various classes of extragalactic sources found in the First Large Area Telescope AGN Catalog, and more detailed discussion of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C454.3 and the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304. Some theoretical studies related to ongoing blazar research with Fermi are mentioned, including implications of γ-ray observations of radio galaxies on blazar unification scenarios, variability in colliding shells, and whether blazars are sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.

Keywords

galaxies: jetsgamma rays: observationsgamma rays: theory
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S275: Jets at all Scales , September 2010 , pp. 111 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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