Testing Leptonic Models for AGN Jets with the GLAST Large Area Telescope

Details Testing Leptonic Models for AGN Jets with the GLAST Large Area Telescope Testing Leptonic Models for AGN Jets with the GLAST Large Area Telescope

Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #7.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.350

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a space-based observatory scheduled to launch in September 2007. Its high-energy instrument, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), is sensitive to gamma rays between 20 MeV and 200 GeV and is designed to survey the gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. We present simulated GLAST LAT spectra and likelihood analyses of typical low-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects and flat spectrum radio quasars in flaring states. The input spectra are computed using a detailed leptonic modeling code that includes both synchrotron self-Compton and external Compton emission, and the GLAST simulations include realistic instrument responses and astrophysical backgrounds. We probe the sensitivity of the LAT observations to changes in various physical parameters, especially those that affect the external inverse-Compton emission. We use these results to determine the precision with which LAT observations can constrain the parameters that describe the accretion disk and the broad line region.

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