Synergy Between Observations of AGN with GLAST and MAXI
Abstract
In five years' time we will witness the launch of two important missions developed to observe celestial sources in the high energy regime: GLAST, sensitive in the high energy gamma ray band, and MAXI, the all-sky X ray monitor. Simultaneous monitoring observations by the two instruments will be particularly valuable for variable sources, allowing cross-correlations of time series between the two bands. We present the anticipated results from such observations of active galaxies, and in particular, of the jet-dominated sub-class of AGN known as blazars. We discuss the constraints on the structure and emission processes - and in particular, on the internal shock models currently invoked to explain the particle acceleration processes in blazars - that can be derived with simultaneous gamma-ray and X-ray data.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- March 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002STIN...0294265M
- Keywords:
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- Time Series Analysis;
- Active Galaxies;
- Energy Bands;
- Blazars;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Gamma Rays;
- Cross Correlation;
- Launching;
- Solid-State Physics