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On leptonic models for blazars in the Fermi era

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-30 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Some questions raised by Fermi-LAT data about blazars are summarized, along with attempts at solutions within the context of leptonic models. These include both spectral and statistical questions, including the origin of the GeV breaks in low-synchrotron peaked blazars, the location of the gamma-ray emission sites, the correlations in the spectral energy distributions with luminosity, and the difficulty of synchrotron/SSC models to fit the spectra of some TeV blazars.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3739,
  title  = {On leptonic models for blazars in the Fermi era},
  author = {Charles Dermer and Benoit Lott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3739},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure, in "Beamed and Unbeamed Gamma Rays from Galaxies," Muonio, Finland, 11-15 April, 2011, ed. R. Wagner, L. Maraschi, A. Sillanpaa, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series