High-energy gamma-ray emission from active galaxies: Egret observations and their implications

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 440, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 525-553

  Von Montigny, C ^a,h   Bertsch, D L ^a   Chiang, J ^c   Dingus, B L ^a,g   Esposito, J A ^a,g   Fichtel, C E ^a   Fierro, J M ^c   Hartman, R C ^a   Hunter, S D ^a   Kanbach, G ^b   Kniffen, D A ^d   Lin, Y C ^c   Mattox, J R ^a,f   Mayer Hasselwander, H A ^b   Michelson, P F ^c   Nolan, P L ^c   Radecke, H D ^b   Schneid, E ^e   Sreekumar, P ^a,g   Thompson, D J ^a   Willis, T ^c   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^f Compton Observ Sci Support Center ^*

^g UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h NAS/NRC ^*

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; Galaxies: active; Gamma rays: observations; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944266600     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/175294     Document Type: Article

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