Gamma-ray emitting AGN and GLAST
Astrophysics
2009-06-23 v1
Abstract
I describe the different classes of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and the basic tenets of unified schemes. I then review the properties of the extragalactic sources detected in the GeV and TeV bands, showing that the vast majority of them belong to the very rare blazar class. I further discuss the kind of AGN GLAST is likely to detect, making some predictions going from the obvious to the likely, all the way to the less probable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.0184,
title = {Gamma-ray emitting AGN and GLAST},
author = {P. Padovani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0184},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, invited talk at the First GLAST Symposium, February 5-8, 2007, Stanford University, USA, to appear in the proceedings