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Roger Blandford
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 716
Citations - 97353
Roger Blandford is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The author has an hindex of 156, co-authored 704 publications receiving 90181 citations. Previous affiliations of Roger Blandford include SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & Max Planck Society.
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Resolving the Extragalactic γ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.
Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Andrea Albert,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,Elliott D. Bloom,R. Bonino,R. Bonino,Johan Bregeon,R. J. Britto,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,M. Caragiulo,M. Caragiulo,P. A. Caraveo,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,Claudia Cecchi,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,G. Chiaro,Stefano Ciprini,Stefano Ciprini,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,L. R. Cominsky,F. Costanza,S. Cutini,S. Cutini,S. Cutini,Filippo D'Ammando,Filippo D'Ammando,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,R. Desiante,R. Desiante,Seth Digel,M. Di Mauro,L. Di Venere,L. Di Venere,Aaron Dominguez,Persis S. Drell,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,A. Franckowiak,Yasushi Fukazawa,Seb. Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Dario Gasparrini,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,G. Godfrey,David H. Green,David H. Green,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,E. Hays,D. Horan,G. Iafrate,T. Jogler,G. Jóhannesson,M. Kuss,G. La Mura,Stefan Larsson,Stefan Larsson,Luca Latronico,Jingcheng Li,Liang Li,Liang Li,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,J. D. Magill,S. Maldera,Alberto Manfreda,M. Mayer,Mn Mazziotta,Peter F. Michelson,Warit Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Matteo Negro,Matteo Negro,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,C. Okada,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,David Paneque,David Paneque,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,Vahé Petrosian,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Roger W. Romani,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,J. Schmid,André Schulz,Carmelo Sgrò,D. Simone,E. J. Siskind,F. Spada,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,D. J. Suson,Hiromitsu Takahashi,J. B. Thayer,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,E. Troja,E. Troja,Giacomo Vianello,M. Yassine,Stephan Zimmer +160 more
TL;DR: This work measures, for the first time, the source count distribution, dN/dS, of extragalactic γ-ray sources at E>50 GeV and finds that it is compatible with a Euclidean distribution down to the lowest measured source flux in the 2FHL.
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Fermi Large Area Telescope View of the Core of the Radio Galaxy Centaurus A
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,R. Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,Elliott D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,A. Bouvier,T. J. Brandt,J. Bregeon,A. Brez,M. Brigida,Pascal Bruel,R. Buehler,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,A. Cannon,A. Cannon,P. A. Caraveo,S. Carrigan,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,E. Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,S. Colafrancesco,L. R. Cominsky,Jan Conrad,L. Costamante,David S. Davis,David S. Davis,C. D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,Richard Dubois,D. Dumora,A. D. Falcone,C. Farnier,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Justin D. Finke,Justin D. Finke,W. B. Focke,P. Fortin,Marco Frailis,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,N. Gehrels,Markos Georganopoulos,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,P. Giommi,F. Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G.L. Godfrey,Paola Grandi,I. A. Grenier,M.-H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Daniela Hadasch,Alice K. Harding,Hayo Hase,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,D. Horan,R. E. Hughes,Ryosuke Itoh,Miranda Jackson,Miranda Jackson,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,Matthias Kadler,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,N. Kawai,T. Kishishita,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Luca Latronico,Sang Hun Lee,M. Lemoine-Goumard,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,B. Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,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,C. Müller,Takeshi Nakamori,M. Naumann-Godo,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,Masanori Ohno,T. Ohsugi,Roopesh Ojha,Akira Okumura,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,M. Ozaki,C. Pagani,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,Christian Plötz,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Joachim Ripken,Steven Ritz,A. Y. Rodriguez,M. Roth,F. Ryde,F. Ryde,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Sánchez,A. Sander,Jeffrey D. Scargle,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,Lukasz Stawarz,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,H. Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,G. Tosti,A. Tramacere,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,Justin Vandenbroucke,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,Paul J. Wang,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Zhenwei Yang,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,M. Ziegler +218 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the gamma-ray observations with the LAT on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus~A were used for the detection of the lobes by the LAT; the LAT core spectrum, extrapolated to higher energies, is marginally consistent with the non-simultaneous HESS spectrum of the source.
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Fermi Large Area Telescope Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Brandon Anderson,W. B. Atwood,Magnus Axelsson,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,R. Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,Elliott D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,J. Bregeon,A. Brez,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,T. H. Burnett,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,P. A. Caraveo,J. M. Casandjian,Claudia Cecchi,E. Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,H. Dereli,Charles D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Seth Digel,G. Di Bernardo,M. Dormody,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,Richard Dubois,D. Dumora,D. Dumora,Y. Edmonds,C. Farnier,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,W. B. Focke,Marco Frailis,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,Daniele Gaggero,F. Gargano,Neil Gehrels,Neil Gehrels,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,F. Giordano,T. Glanzman,G.L. Godfrey,Isabelle Grenier,M.-H. Grondin,M.-H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Y. Hanabata,Alice K. Harding,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,R. E. Hughes,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,R. P. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,N. Kawai,Matthew Kerr,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. L. Kocian,F. Kuehn,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Luca Latronico,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,Grzegorz Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,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,P. L. Nolan,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Akira Okumura,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,D. Parent,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,T. Reposeur,Steven Ritz,A. Y. Rodriguez,M. Roth,Felix Ryde,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Sánchez,A. Sander,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Jeffrey D. Scargle,A. Sellerholm,Carmelo Sgrò,David A. Smith,David A. Smith,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,Floyd W. Stecker,E. Striani,M. S. Strickman,Andrew W. Strong,D. J. Suson,H. Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,Luigi Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,Paul J. Wang,Brian L Winer,Kent S. Wood,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,M. Ziegler +191 more
TL;DR: The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the diffuse gamma-ray emission with improved sensitivity and resolution compared to EGRET, and the LAT spectrum for this region of the sky is well reproduced by a diffuse galactic gamma-rays emission model that is consistent with local CR spectra and inconsistent with the EGRET GeV excess.
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Reaction rates and energy distributions for elementary processes in relativistic pair plasmas
Paolo De Coppi,Roger Blandford +1 more
TL;DR: Les taux de reactions and les distributions d'energies dans les plamas paires relativistes sont determines for les processus elementaires suivants : la diffusion Compton, l'annihilation paire, la production paire 2 photons, la diffusion Coulomb and le rayonnement de freinage e-e as discussed by the authors.
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A population of gamma-ray emitting globular clusters seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Roger Blandford,Elliott D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,A. Bouvier,T. J. Brandt,T. J. Brandt,J. Bregeon,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,Pascal Bruel,R. Buehler,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,P. A. Caraveo,S. Carrigan,J. M. Casandjian,Eric Charles,Sylvain Chaty,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,M. E. DeCesar,M. E. DeCesar,Charles D. Dermer,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,D. Dumora,D. Dumora,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,P. Fortin,M. Frailis,Yasushi Fukazawa,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,N. Gehrels,S. Germani,S. Germani,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,M.-H. Grondin,M.-H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,D. Hadasch,Alice K. Harding,E. Hays,Pierre Jean,Gudlaugur Johannesson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Matthew Kerr,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Luca Latronico,Shiu-Hang Lee,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,M. N. Mazziotta,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,M. Naumann-Godo,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,B. Pancrazi,D. Parent,D. Parent,M. Pepe,M. Pepe,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,T. Reposeur,Joachim Ripken,Roger W. Romani,M. Roth,Hartmut Sadrozinski,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,David Stanley Smith,David Stanley Smith,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,G. Tosti,G. Tosti,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,Christo Venter,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,P. Wang,N. A. Webb,Brian L Winer,Zhenwei Yang,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,M. Ziegler +182 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 546 days of continuous sky-survey observations obtained with the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to study the gamma-ray emission towards 13 globular clusters.