GLAST answers about high-energy peaked BL Lacs: double-humped γ-ray peak and extreme accelerators ?

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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Active And Peculiar Galaxies And Related Systems

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An often overlooked fact is that the MeV-GeV emission from High-energy peaked BL Lacs (HBL) is basically unknown: there are only 3 objects of this type among all EGRET identified blazars with measured spectra. GLAST will be able to measure the spectrum for many of them, in particular TeV-blazars, and surprises are expected. GLAST will tell if the γ-ray peak in some HBL is actually a ``double peak'', as suggested by the comparison of EGRET and HESS data in PKS 2155-304, We also remind and argue that a new class of BL Lacs could exist, where particles are shock-accelerated near the maximum possible rate, characterized by the synchrotron emission peaking in the GLAST band (100 MeV - few GeV). Such objects could easily have escaped detection or identification so far, and could now be unveiled by GLAST.

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