Short Time-scale Gamma-Ray Variability of Blazars and EGRET Unidentified Sources
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We have begun to examine the EGRET database for short term variations in the fluxes of blazars and unidentified sources at high Galactic latitude. We find that several AGN show previously unreported variability. Such variations are consistent with inverse Compton scattering processes in a shock propagating through a relativistic jet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9709305,
title = {Short Time-scale Gamma-Ray Variability of Blazars and EGRET Unidentified Sources},
author = {S. D. Bloom and D. J. Thompson and R. C. Hartman and C. von Montigny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9709305},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages tex; 4 figures; to appear in Proceedings of the 4th Compton Symposium