• Title of article

    Blazar jet physics in the age of Fermi

  • Author/Authors

    Charles D. Dermer and James Chiang، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    109
  • To page
    120
  • Abstract
    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: jets , gamma rays: observations , gamma rays: theory
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Record number

    668104