Modeling Fermi Large Area Telescope and Multiwavelength Data from Blazars

Abstract

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed at the Earth, making them extremely bright at essentially all wavelengths, from radio to gamma rays. I review the modeling of this broadband spectral energy distributions of these objects, and what we have learned, with a focus on gamma rays.

21 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA2015), 18-20 June 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa, Eds. M. Boettcher, D. Buckley, S. Colafrancesco, P. Meintjes and S. Razzaque. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1303.5095

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