Gamma-Ray Observational Properties of TeV-Detected Blazars
Abstract
The synergy between the Fermi-LAT and ground-based Cherenkov telescope arrays gives us the opportunity for the first time to characterize the high-energy emission from blazars over 5 decades in energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. In this study, we perform a Fermi-LAT spectral analysis for TeV-detected blazars and combine it with archival TeV data. We examine the observational properties in the gamma-ray band of our sample of TeV-detected blazars and compare the results with X-ray and GeV-selected populations. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) that result from combining Fermi-LAT and ground-based spectra are studied in detail. Simple parameterizations such as a power-law function do not always reproduce the high-energy SEDs, where spectral features that could indicate intrinsic absorption are observed.
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@article{arxiv.1301.3697,
title = {Gamma-Ray Observational Properties of TeV-Detected Blazars},
author = {G. D. Senturk and M. Errando and M. Boettcher and R. Mukherjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3697},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
21 pages, 13 figures, ApJ, 764, 119, corresponding author: G. D. Senturk