Jets, Blazars and the EBL in the GLAST-EXIST Era
| dc.creator | Grindlay, Jonathan E. | |
| dc.creator | Team, the EXIST | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:35:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:35:59Z | |
| dc.description | The synergy of GLAST and the proposed EXIST mission as the Black Hole Finder Probe in the Beyond Einstein Program is remarkable. With its full-sky per orbit hard X-ray imaging (3-600 keV) and "nuFnu" sensitivity comparable to GLAST, EXIST could measure variability and spectra of Blazars in the hard X-ray synchrotron component simultaneous with GLAST (~10-100GeV) measures of the inverse Compton component, thereby uniquely constraining intrinsic source spectra and allowing measured high energy spectral breaks to measure the cosmic diffuse extra-galactic background light (EBL) by determining the intervening diffuse IR photon field required to yield the observed break from photon-photon absorption. Such studies also constrain the physics of jets (and parameters and indeed the validity of SSC models) and the origin of the >100 MeV gamma-ray diffuse background likely arising from Blazars and jet-dominated sources. An overview of the EXIST mission, which could fly in the GLAST era, is given together with a synopsis of other key synergies of GLAST-EXIST science. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages, 2 Figs., to appear in Proc. First GLAST Symp. (Stanford, Feb. 5-8, 2007), eds. S.Ritz, P.F.Michelson, and C.Meegan, AIP Conf. Proc | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4492 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4492 | |
| dc.identifier | AIPConf.Proc.921:211-216,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1063/1.2757303 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/179906 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Jets, Blazars and the EBL in the GLAST-EXIST Era | |
| dc.type | text |