Blazars: the next gamma-ray view of GLAST
Abstract
Blazars, the extreme family of AGN, can be strong gamma-ray emitters and constitute the largest fraction of identified point sources of EGRET. The next Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a high energy (30MeV-300GeV) gamma-ray astronomy mission, planned for launch at the end of 2006. GLAST performances will allow to detect few thousands of gamma-ray blazars, with a broad band coverage and temporal resolution, also in quiescent emission phases, providing probably many answers about these sources.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0308377,
title = {Blazars: the next gamma-ray view of GLAST},
author = {Stefano Ciprini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0308377},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures. To be appeared in "XLVII Congresso Nazionale SAIt 2003. Memorie della SAIt - Supplementi" (web-based journal). Edited by L. Girardi & S. Zaggia. 2003. Proceedings of XLVII National Conference of SAIt, held in Trieste, Italy, April 14-17, 2003