Thursday, January 17, 2013

1301.3697 (G. D. Senturk et al.)

Gamma-Ray Observational Properties of TeV-Detected Blazars    [PDF]

G. D. Senturk, M. Errando, M. Boettcher, R. Mukherjee
The synergy between the Fermi-LAT and ground-based Cherenkov telescope arrays gives us the opportunity for the first time to characterize the high-energy emission from blazars over 5 decades in energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. In this study, we perform a Fermi-LAT spectral analysis for TeV-detected blazars and combine it with archival TeV data. We examine the observational properties in the gamma-ray band of our sample of TeV-detected blazars and compare the results with X-ray and GeV-selected populations. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) that result from combining Fermi-LAT and ground-based spectra are studied in detail. Simple parameterizations such as a power-law function do not always reproduce the high-energy SEDs, where spectral features that could indicate intrinsic absorption are observed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3697

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