Gamma Rays From Blazars
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2017-08-09 v1
Abstract
Blazars are high-energy engines providing us natural laboratories to study particle acceleration, relativistic plasma processes, magnetic field dynamics, black hole physics. Key informations are provided by observations at high-energy (in particular by Fermi/LAT) and very-high energy (by Cherenkov telescopes). I give a short account of the current status of the field, with particular emphasis on the theoretical challenges connected to the observed ultra-fast variability events and to the emission of flat spectrum radio quasars in the very high energy band.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.04260,
title = {Gamma Rays From Blazars},
author = {F. Tavecchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04260},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages, invited talk at "Gamma2016", Heidelberg July 11-15, 2016, to be published in a special volume of the AIP Conference Proceedings