Constraining blazars distances with combined GeV and TeV data

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2011-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/1111.0913v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

2011 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C110509

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Recently, a new method to constrain the distances of blazars with unknown redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes has been developed. The underlying assumption is that the Very High Energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) spectrum corrected for the absorption of TeV photons by the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) via photon-photon interaction should still be softer than the gamma-ray spectrum observed by Fermi/LAT. The constraints found are related to the real redshifts by a simple linear relation, that has been used to infer the unknown or uncertain distance of blazars. The sample is revised with the up-to-date spectra in both TeV and GeV bands and the method applied to the unknown distance blazar PKS 1424+240 detected at VHE.

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