The Interpretation of Blazars in the Fermi Era
Abstract
Following its launch in June 2008, well over a thousand blazars have been detected by Fermi. Even more important have been the statistical and episodic multi-wavelength observations that have been organized around Fermi. These are starting to settle some decade-long debates concerning the emission sites, the jet composition and velocity field and the jet collimation mechanism, pre-requisites to an understanding of jet origin. Recent progress and future prospects will be summarized.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #11
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010HEAD...11.3001B