Bibcode
Konopelko, Alexander; VERITAS Collaboration; Wagner, R.; MAGIC Collaboration; Boettcher, M.; Bretz, T.; de la Calle Perez, I.; Hyashida, M.; Ibarra Ibaibar, A.; Lindfors, E.; Mannheim, K.; Mastichiadis, A.; Oya, I.; Rodriguez-Pascual, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #326.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.382
Fecha de publicación:
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2009
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Descripción
The physics of blazar flares is still not well understood. Currently
favored emission models include electron inverse Compton (IC) scattering
of low-energy synchrotron photons from within the jet or photons
generated outside the jet, emission produced by the proton initiated
cascades or synchrotron emission of extremely high-energy protons or
muons. Simultaneous broadband observations of blazars in a flaring state
provide excellent tests of these emission models. Observations of
blazars at GeV (FGST-LAT) and TeV (MAGIC/VERITAS) energies, as well as
in the X-ray energy band (XMM), allow profiling the spectral shape of
the high-energy component of their emission. The MAGIC and VERITAS
collaborations have committed substantial fraction of the available
observing time to the blazar science program, which includes monitoring
as well as detailed study of the flaring blazars. Here we report on the
recent observational results, as well as detailed modeling of the
broadband spectral energy distributions of known blazars detected at
very high energies in a flaring state.