High energy blazars spectroscopy with X-Shooter on the VLT
arXiv:1208.1785 · doi:10.1063/1.4772323
Abstract
We present results of observations in the UV to near-IR range for eight blazars, three of which have been recently discovered at Very High Energies (VHE) and five appearing as interesting candidates for VHE γ-ray detection. We focus in this paper on the search for their redshifts, which are unknown or considered as uncertain.
4 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2012), July 9-13, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany
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