eXtreme19

Session

Introduction

22 Jan 2019, 11:50

Polo di Psicologia - room 3I (3rd floor, building 2) (Padova)

Conveners

Introduction

• Elisa Prandini

111. An Introduction to Extreme Blazars

Dr Luigi Costamante (ASI)

22/01/2019, 11:50

Main track

Talk

Extreme blazars are characterized by the highest SED peak energies of the whole blazar population, either by synchrotron or inverse Compton emission (if it is inverse Compton at all), or both. Their peak energies surprised us reaching values up to or beyond 100 keV and 10 TeV, respectively, more than 2 orders of magnitude higher than run-of-the-mill HBLs. Over the past decade,...