Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-09-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 6 figures, description, uses paspconf macro (latex file with encapsulated postscript). Invited review talk at the Mi
Scientific paper
Blazars are characterized by rapid variability at virtually all wavelengths from radio through TeV gamma-rays. The challenge since their discovery has been to understand the origin of their luminous, apparently nonthermal, nuclear emission. Considerable progress has been made in recent years thanks to a handful of multiwavelength monitoring campaigns with high enough temporal sampling to resolve the most rapid variations. The best data for a few objects have shown a variety of behaviors, for the most part commensurate with synchrotron and Compton-scattered emission from a relativistic jet, though better data for more blazars are still clearly needed. In particular, the origin of the seed photons that are upscattered to gamma-ray energies remains unclear. The latest multiwavelength light curves for the BL Lac object PKS2155-304 appear to rule out synchrotron emission from a homogeneous source.
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