C
C. M. Raiteri
Researcher at INAF
Publications - 272
Citations - 14108
C. M. Raiteri is an academic researcher from INAF. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blazar & BL Lac object. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 248 publications receiving 12268 citations.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The spectral energy distribution of fermi bright blazars
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Ivan Agudo,Marco Ajello,Hugh D. Aller,Margo F. Aller,Emmanouil Angelakis,A. A. Arkharov,Magnus Axelsson,Magnus Axelsson,Uwe Bach,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Erika Benítez,Andrei Berdyugin,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Markus Boettcher,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,Johan Bregeon,A. Brez,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,T. H. Burnett,David N. Burrows,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,L. Calzoletti,R. A. Cameron,M. Capalbi,P. A. Caraveo,D. Carosati,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,C. Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,E. Charles,Sylvain Chaty,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,Wen Ping Chen,James Chiang,G. Chincarini,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,S. Colafrancesco,L. R. Cominsky,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,L. Costamante,S. Cutini,F. D'Ammando,R. Deitrick,V. D'Elia,Charles D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Seth Digel,I. Donnarumma,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,Deborah Dultzin,D. Dumora,A. D. Falcone,C. Farnier,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,W. B. Focke,E. Forné,P. Fortin,Marco Frailis,Lars Fuhrmann,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,José L. Gómez,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Neil Gehrels,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,F. Giordano,A. Giuliani,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,Caryl Gronwall,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Mark Gurwell,D. Hadasch,Y. Hanabata,Alice K. Harding,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,S. E. Healey,Jochen Heidt,David Hiriart,D. Horan,E. A. Hoversten,R. E. Hughes,Ryosuke Itoh,Miranda Jackson,Miranda Jackson,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,Svetlana G. Jorstad,Matthias Kadler,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Nobuyuki Kawai,J. A. Kennea,Matthew Kerr,Givi N. Kimeridze,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. L. Kocian,E. N. Kopatskaya,Ekaterina Koptelova,Tatiana S. Konstantinova,Yuri Y. Kovalev,Yu. A. Kovalev,Omar M. Kurtanidze,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Valeri M. Larionov,Luca Latronico,Paolo Leto,Elina Lindfors,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,Grzegorz Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,P. Marchegiani,Alan P. Marscher,F. E. Marshall,Walter Max-Moerbeck,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,C. Meurer,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,I. Nestoras,K. Nilsson,N. A. Nizhelsky,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Roopesh Ojha,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,J. P. Osborne,M. Ozaki,L. Pacciani,Paolo Padovani,C. Pagani,K. L. Page,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,M. Pasanen,Vasiliki Pavlidou,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,M. Perri,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,S. Piranomonte,F. Piron,C. Pittori,T. A. Porter,Simonetta Puccetti,Farid Rahoui,S. Rainò,C. M. Raiteri,Robert R. Rando,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Joseph L. Richards,Steven Ritz,L.S. Rochester,A. Y. Rodriguez,Roger W. Romani,J. A. Ros,M. Roth,P. Roustazadeh,Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,H. F.W. Sadrozinski,A. C. Sadun,David Sánchez,A. Sander,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Jeffrey D. Scargle,A. Sellerholm,Carmelo Sgrò,M. S. Shaw,Lorand A. Sigua,E. J. Siskind,David A. Smith,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,Mark Stevenson,G. Stratta,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,H. Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,L. O. Takalo,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,F. Verrecchia,N. Vilchez,M. Villata,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,Paul J. Wang,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,J. A. Zensus,G. V. Zhekanis,M. Ziegler +273 more
Abstract: We have conducted a detailed investigation of the broadband spectral properties of the gamma-ray selected blazars of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). By combining our accurately estimated Fermi gamma-ray spectra with Swift, radio, infra-red, optical, and other hard X-ray/gamma-ray data, collected within 3 months of the LBAS data taking period, we were able to assemble high-quality and quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distributions (SED) for 48 LBAS blazars. The SED of these gamma-ray sources is similar to that of blazars discovered at other wavelengths, clearly showing, in the usual log nu-log nu F-nu representation, the typical broadband spectral signatures normally attributed to a combination of low-energy synchrotron radiation followed by inverse Compton emission of one or more components. We have used these SED to characterize the peak intensity of both the low-and the high-energy components. The results have been used to derive empirical relationships that estimate the position of the two peaks from the broadband colors (i.e., the radio to optical, alpha(ro), and optical to X-ray, alpha(ox), spectral slopes) and from the gamma-ray spectral index. Our data show that the synchrotron peak frequency (nu(S)(peak)) is positioned between 10(12.5) and 10(14.5) Hz in broad-lined flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and between 10(13) and 10(17) Hz in featureless BL Lacertae objects. We find that the gamma-ray spectral slope is strongly correlated with the synchrotron peak energy and with the X-ray spectral index, as expected at first order in synchrotron-inverse Compton scenarios. However, simple homogeneous, one-zone, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models cannot explain most of our SED, especially in the case of FSRQs and low energy peaked (LBL) BL Lacs. More complex models involving external Compton radiation or multiple SSC components are required to reproduce the overall SED and the observed spectral variability. While more than 50% of known radio bright high energy peaked (HBL) BL Lacs are detected in the LBAS sample, only less than 13% of known bright FSRQs and LBL BL Lacs are included. This suggests that the latter sources, as a class, may be much fainter gamma-ray emitters than LBAS blazars, and could in fact radiate close to the expectations of simple SSC models. We categorized all our sources according to a new physical classification scheme based on the generally accepted paradigm for Active Galactic Nuclei and on the results of this SED study. Since the LAT detector is more sensitive to flat spectrum gamma-ray sources, the correlation between nu(S)(peak) and gamma-ray spectral index strongly favors the detection of high energy peaked blazars, thus explaining the Fermi overabundance of this type of sources compared to radio and EGRET samples. This selection effect is similar to that experienced in the soft X-ray band where HBL BL Lacs are the dominant type of blazars.
Journal ArticleDOI
Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration A. Vallenari,Anthony G. A. Brown,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,F. Arenou,C. Babusiaux,M. Biermann,O. Creevey,C. Ducourant,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,Rocio Guerra,A. Hutton,C. Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,C. Panem,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,P. Sartoretti,Caroline Soubiran,P. Tanga,N. A. Walton,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ulrich Bastian,R. Drimmel,F. A. Jansen,D. Katz,Mario G. Lattanzi,F. van Leeuwen,Joost M. Bakker,Carla Cacciari,J. Castañeda,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Morgan Fouesneau,Y. Fr'emat,Laurent Galluccio,A. Guerrier,Ulrike Heiter,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Christine Nicolas,K. Nienartowicz,F. Pailler,P. Panuzzo,François Riclet,Woulter Le Roux,George M. Seabroke,R. Sordoorcit,F. Th'evenin,G. Gracia-Abril,Jordi Portell,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Marc Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,Jérôme Bertherat,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,D. Busonero,G. Busso,H. C'anovas,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,Neil Cheek,G. Clementini,Yassine Damerdji,Michael Davidson,P. de Teodoro,Milton Campos,Ludovic Delchambre,Aldo Dell'Oro,P. Esquej,J. Fern'andez-Hern'andez,E. Fraile,D. Garabato,P. Garc'ia-Lario,Eric Gosset,R. Haigron,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,J. Hern'andez,Daniel Hestroffer,Simon Hodgkin,B. Holl,K. Janßen,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Sable Jordan,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,W. Loffler,O. Marchal,P. M. Marrese,André Moitinho,Karri Muinonen,P. Osborne,Elena Pancino,T. Pauwels,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,C. Reyl'e,M. Riello,L. Rimoldini,T. Roegiers,Jan Rybizki,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. W. L. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,E. Utrilla,M. van Leeuwen,Ummi Abbas,P. 'Abrah'am,A. Abreu Aramburu,Conny Aerts,J. J. Aguado,Mustafa Ajaj,Fernando Aldea-Montero,Gina M Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,João Alves,Friedrich Anders,Richard I. Anderson,E. Anglada Varela,Teresa Antoja,D. Baines,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-N'unez,Eduardo Balbinot,Zoltan Balog,C. Barache,D. Barbato,Micaela Sousa Barros,Martin A. Barstow,S. Bartolom'e,J.-L. Bassilana,N. Bauchet,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,A. Berihuete,M. L. Bernet,Stefano Bertone,Luca Bianchi,Avraham Binnenfeld,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,A. Blazère,T. Boch,Alex Bombrun,Diego Bossini,S. Bouquillon,Angela Bragaglia,L. Bramante,Elmé Breedt,Alessandro Bressan,N. Brouillet,E. Brugaletta,Beatrice Bucciarelli,Alexandra Burlacu,A. G. Butkevich,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,Rossella Cancelliere,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,Rigoberto Vargas Carballo,T. Carlucci,M. I. Carnerero,J. M. Carrasco,Laia Casamiquela,Marco Castellani,Alfred Castro-Ginard,L. Chaoul,P. Charlot,L. Chemin,Vincenzo Chiaramida,Andrea Chiavassa,Nick Chornay,G. Comoretto,G. Contursi,W. J. Cooper,Trish Cornez,S. Cowell,F. Crifo,M. Cropper,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,Carlos Dafonte,A. Dapergolas,M. David,P. David,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,J. De Ridder,R. E. de Souza,A. de Torres,E. F. del Peloso,E Perea del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,J.-B. Delisle,C. Demouchy,Thavisha E. Dharmawardena,L. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,C. Diener,E. Distefano,C. Dolding,Bengt Edvardsson,Harry Enke,Cécile Fabre,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,Grigori Fedorets,P. Fernique,Agnes Fienga,Francesc Figueras,Yori Fournier,Celine Fouron,Francesca Fragkoudi,Mario Gai,A. Garcia-Gutierrez,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,M. Garc'ia-Torres,A. Garofalo,A. Gavel,P. Gavras,E. Gerlach,R. Geyer,P. Giacobbe,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,Roy Gomel,Ana Gomez,J. Gonz'alez-N'unez,I. Gonz'alez-Santamar'ia,J. J. Gonz'alez-Vidal,Mikael Granvik,Patrick Guillout,J. Guiraud,R. Guti'errez-S'anchez,Leanne P. Guy,Despina Hatzidimitriou,Margit Hauser,Misha Haywood,A. Helmer,Amina Helmi,M. Sarmiento,Sebastián Labella Hidalgo,Thomas Hilger,N. Hladczuk,David Hobbs,G. Holland,H. E. Huckle,Kevin Jardine,G. Jasniewicz,Arianna Piccolo,'O. Jim'enez-Arranz,Alain Jorissen,J.-J. Campillo,F. Julbe,L. Karbevska,Patrick Kervella,Shourya Khanna,M. Kontizas,Georges Kordopatis,Andreas Korn,'A. K'osp'al,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,K. Kruszy'nska,Mária Kun,P. Laizeau,Sbastien Bernard Lambert,A. F. Lanza,Y. Lasne,J. F. Le Campion,Yveline Lebreton,T. Lebzelter,S. Leccia,N. Leclerc,I. Lecoeur-Taibi,S. Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,Evdokia Livanou,A. Lobel,A. Lorca,Caroline Loup,Pepe Pardo,Angela M. Romeo,S. Managau,Roy G. Mann,Minia Manteiga,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,Jose Marcos,M.M.S. Marcos Santos,Dagoberto Pina,S. Marinoni,Federico Marocco,D. J. Marshall,Lorena Martín Polo,J. M. Mart'in-Fleitas,Gábor Marton,Nicolas Mary,Atsbeha Gebreegziabxier Lluis Masip,Davide Massari,Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,Daniel Michalik,N. R. Millar,Alexey Mints,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,L. Moln'ar,Giacomo Monari,M. Mongui'o,Paolo Montegriffo,A. Montero,Roger Mor,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Derek W. Morris,Tatiana Muraveva,Caroline P. Murphy,Ilaria Musella,Zsofia Nagy,Lorraine K. Noval,Francisco M. Ocaña,Andrew Ogden,C. Ordénovic,J. Osinde,C Pagani,Isabella Pagano,L. Palaversa,Pedro A. Palicio,L. Pallas-Quintela,A. Panahi,S. Payne-Wardenaar,X. P. Esteller,A. Penttila,B. Pichon,A. M. Piersimoni,F.-X. Pineau,E. Plachy,G.L. Plum,E. Poggio,Andrej Prsa,L. Pulone,E. Racero,S. Ragaini,Monica Rainer,C. M. Raiteri,Nicolas Rambaux,Pedro Ortiz Ramos,M. Ramos-Lerate,Paola Re Fiorentin,S. Regibo,P. J. Richards,C. Rios Diaz,Vincenzo Ripepi,Alberto Riva,Hans-Walter Rix,G. Rixon,N. Robichon,Annie C. Robin,Caroline Robin,M. Roelens,H. Rogues,L.B. Johnston Rohrbasser,M. Romero-G'omez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,D. Mieres,Kelly Rybicki,G. Sadowski,Asuncion Nunez,A. S. Sell'es,Johannes Sahlmann,Enrique Salguero,Nikolaos Samaras,V. Sanchez Gimenez,Nino Sanna,R. Santoveña,M. Sarasso,Mathias Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,D. S'egransan,D. Semeux,Sahar Shahaf,H. I. Siddiqui,Arnaud Siebert,L. Siltala,Arturo Silvelo,Eric Slezak,Inna Slezak,Richard L. Smart,O. Snaith,Enrique Solano,F. Solitro,D. Souami,J. Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,Lorenzo Spina,Federica Spoto,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmuller,C.A. Stephenson,Maria Suveges,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,F. Taris,M. Taylo,R. Teixeira,Leonardo Tolomei,N. Tonello,Frank A. Torra,J. Torra,G. Torralba Elipe,Marta Trabucchi,Athanasios Tsounis,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,N. Unger,Marcel Vaillant,Emmanuel Van Dillen,W. van Reeven,Olivier Vanel,Alberto Vecchiato,Y. Viala,Diogo Vicente,S. Voutsinas,M. Weiler,Thomas Wevers,L. Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,Patrick Yvard,H. Zhao,J. Zorec,S. Zucker,Tomaz Zwitter +454 more
TL;DR: The third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3 as discussed by the authors , contains the same source list, celestial positions, proper motions, parallaxes, and broad band photometry in the G, G$BP}$, and G$RP}$ pass-bands already present in the Early Third Data Release.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Markarian 421: The Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,A. Bouvier,J. Bregeon,Alessandro Brez,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,S. Buson,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,A. Cannon,A. Cannon,P. A. Caraveo,S. Carrigan,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,Claudia Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,S. Cutini,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,D. Dumora,L. Escande,L. Escande,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,Stephen Fegan,Justin D. Finke,W. B. Focke,P. Fortin,M. Frailis,Lars Fuhrmann,Yasushi Fukazawa,T. Fukuyama,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,N. Gehrels,Markos Georganopoulos,S. Germani,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,Daniela Hadasch,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,D. Horan,R. E. Hughes,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,Matthias Kadler,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Luca Latronico,Shiu-Hang Lee,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,Walter Max-Moerbeck,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,J. Mehault,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Takeshi Nakamori,M. Naumann-Godo,Sho Nishino,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Atsushi Okumura,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,M. Ozaki,David Paneque,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,D. Parent,Vasiliki Pavlidou,T. J. Pearson,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,M. Pepe,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,M. Pierbattista,F. Piron,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,Anthony C. S. Readhead,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,L. C. Reyes,Joseph L. Richards,Steven Ritz,M. Roth,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Sanchez,A. Sander,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,Łukasz Stawarz,Mark Stevenson,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,Eleonora Troja,T. L. Usher,Justin Vandenbroucke,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,Giacomo Vianello,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,P. Wang,Ann E. Wehrle,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Zhenwei Yang,Y. Yatsu,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,J. A. Zensus,M. Ziegler,Jelena Aleksić,L. A. Antonelli,P. Antoranz,Michael Backes,Juan Abel Barrio,J. Becerra González,J. Becerra González,W. Bednarek,Andrei Berdyugin,K. Berger,Elisa Bernardini,Adrian Biland,Oscar Blanch,R. K. Bock,A. Boller,G. Bonnoli,Pol Bordas,D. Borla Tridon,Valentí Bosch-Ramon,D. Bose,Ilana M. Braun,Thomas Bretz,M. Camara,E. Carmona,Alessandro Carosi,Pierre Colin,E. Colombo,Jose Luis Contreras,Juan Cortina,Stefano Covino,Francesco Dazzi,E. De Cea del Pozo,C. Delgado Mendez,B. De Lotto,M. De Maria,F. De Sabata,A. Diago Ortega,A. Diago Ortega,M. Doert,Aaron Dominguez,D. Dominis Prester,Daniela Dorner,Michele Doro,Michele Doro,Dominik Elsaesser,Daniel Ferenc,M. V. Fonseca,Ll. Font,R. J. García López,R. J. García López,M. Garczarczyk,Markus Gaug,Gianluca Giavitto,N. Godinovi,Artemio Herrero,Artemio Herrero,D. Hildebrand,D. Höhne-Mönch,J. Hose,Dario Hrupec,T. Jogler,S. Klepser,T. Krähenbühl,D. Kranich,J. Krause,A. La Barbera,E. Leonardo,Elina Lindfors,Saverio Lombardi,Saverio Lombardi,M. López,M. López,E. Lorenz,E. Lorenz,P. Majumdar,E. Makariev,G. Maneva,N. Mankuzhiyil,K. Mannheim,L. Maraschi,Mosè Mariotti,Mosè Mariotti,M. I. Martínez,Daniel Mazin,Mario Meucci,Jose Miguel Miranda,R. Mirzoyan,Hiroko Miyamoto,J. Moldón,Abelardo Moralejo,Daniel Nieto,K. Nilsson,Reiko Orito,I. Oya,Riccardo Paoletti,Josep M. Paredes,S. Partini,M. Pasanen,F. Pauss,R. Pegna,Miguel A. Pérez-Torres,Massimo Persic,Massimo Persic,J. Peruzzo,J. Peruzzo,J. Pochon,Francisco Prada,P. G. Prada Moroni,Elisa Prandini,Elisa Prandini,N. Puchades,Ivica Puljak,T. Reichardt,Wolfgang Rhode,Marc Ribó,J. Rico,J. Rico,M. Rissi,S. Rügamer,A. Saggion,A. Saggion,K. Saito,Takashi Saito,M. Salvati,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,Konstancja Satalecka,V. Scalzotto,V. Scalzotto,V. Scapin,C. Schultz,C. Schultz,T. Schweizer,M. Shayduk,S. N. Shore,S. N. Shore,Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik,A. Sillanpää,Julian Sitarek,Dorota Sobczyńska,Felix Spanier,S. Spiro,Antonio Stamerra,B. Steinke,J. Storz,N. Strah,J. C. Struebig,Tihomir Surić,L. O. Takalo,Fabrizio Tavecchio,Petar Temnikov,Tomislav Terzić,D. Tescaro,Masahiro Teshima,H. Vankov,Robert Wagner,Q. Weitzel,Victor Zabalza,Fabio Zandanel,R. Zanin,M. Villata,C. M. Raiteri,Hugh D. Aller,M. F. Aller,Wen Ping Chen,B. Jordan,Ekaterina Koptelova,Omar M. Kurtanidze,Anne Lähteenmäki,B. McBreen,Valeri M. Larionov,Valeri M. Larionov,Valeri M. Larionov,C. S. Lin,M. G. Nikolashvili,R. Reinthal,Emmanouil Angelakis,M. Capalbi,A. Carraminana,L. Carrasco,P. Cassaro,A. Cesarini,A. D. Falcone,Mark Gurwell,Talvikki Hovatta,Yu. A. Kovalev,Yuri Y. Kovalev,Yuri Y. Kovalev,Thomas P. Krichbaum,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Matthew L. Lister,Joseph Moody,G. Maccaferri,Y. Mori,I. Nestoras,Andrea Orlati,C. Pace,C. Pagani,R. Pearson,M. Perri,B. G. Piner,Eduardo Ros,Eduardo Ros,A. C. Sadun,T. Sakamoto,Joni Tammi,A. C. Zook +421 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the gamma-ray activity of the high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacertae object Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) during the first 1.5 years of Fermi operation was reported.
Journal ArticleDOI
Multiwavelength Observations of a Dramatic High-Energy Flare in the Blazar 3C 279
Ann E. Wehrle,Elena Pian,C. M. Urry,L. Maraschi,I. M. McHardy,Anthony Lawson,G. Ghisellini,R. C. Hartman,Greg Madejski,F. Makino,Alan P. Marscher,Stefan Wagner,James R. Webb,James R. Webb,G. Aldering,Margo F. Aller,Hugh D. Aller,Dana E. Backman,Thomas J. Balonek,P. Boltwood,Jerry T. Bonnell,J. Caplinger,Annalisa Celotti,Werner Collmar,J. Dalton,A. Drucker,Renato Falomo,C. E. Fichtel,Wolfram Freudling,Walter Kieran Gear,N. Gonzales,Patrick B. Hall,H. Inoue,W. N. Johnson,Demos Kazanas,Mark R. Kidger,Tsuneo Kii,R. I. Kollgaard,Yoji Kondo,James D. Kurfess,Yiing Lin,B. McCollum,K. McNaron-Brown,F. Nagase,A. D. Nair,Steve Penton,Joseph E. Pesce,Joseph E. Pesce,Martin Pohl,C. M. Raiteri,Matthew J. Renda,E. I. Robson,Rita M. Sambruna,Rita M. Sambruna,A. F. Schirmer,Chris Shrader,Marek Sikora,A. Sillanpää,Paul S. Smith,Jamie Stevens,John T. Stocke,L. O. Takalo,H. Teräsranta,D. J. Thompson,R. Thompson,Merja Tornikoski,G. Tosti,Aldo Treves,P. Turcotte,Stephen C. Unwin,E. Valtaoja,M. Villata,W. Xu,A. Yamashita,A. C. Zook +74 more
TL;DR: The blazar 3C 279, one of the brightest identified extragalactic objects in the γ-ray sky, underwent a large (factor of ~10 in amplitude) flare in γ rays toward the end of a 3 week pointing by Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), in 1996 January-February.