Populations Studies of GeV Blazars with AGILE

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000head....5.4405v&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD Meeting #5, #44.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1651

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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AGILE, set to launch in 2002, is a large field-of-view ( ~ 3 sr) gamma-ray telescope with sensitivity comparable to that of EGRET for on-axis sources, and substantially better for off-axis sources. Whereas EGRET was able to observe a given source for only a handful of two-week viewing periods over many years, in contrast AGILE will be able to observe every source for a large fraction of its lifetime. As a result, not only will AGILE detect many more blazar flares, but the overall duty cycle of blazars on the scale of weeks to months will be far better characterized. We examine the constraints that these observations will place on the luminosity function of gamma-ray emitting AGNs and their proposed emission mechanisms.

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