The challenging SED of AP Librae
Abstract
Matching the broad-band emission of active galaxies with the predictions of theoretical models can be used to derive constraints on the properties of the emitting region and to probe the physical processes involved. AP Librae is the third low frequency peaked BL Lac (LBL) detected at very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) by an Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope; most VHE BL Lacs (34 out of 39) belong to the high-frequency and intermediate-frequency BL Lac classes (HBL and IBL). LBL objects tend to have a higher luminosity with lower peak frequencies than HBLs or IBLs. The characterization of their time-averaged spectral energy distribution is challenging for emission models such as synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models.
- Publication:
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The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies - SED 2011
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312009532
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..284..411S
- Keywords:
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- gamma rays: observations;
- galaxies: active;
- BL Lacertae objects: individual