Relativistic beaming and gamma-ray brightness of blazars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 512, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Savolainen, T ^a   Homan, D C ^b   Hovatta, T ^c,d   Kadler, M ^e,f,g   Kovalev, Y Y ^a,h   Lister, M L ^c   Ros, E ^a,i   Zensus, J A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: jets; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES;

BL LACERTAE OBJECTS: GENERAL; BLAZARS; DOPPLER; FLUX DENSITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTRINSIC ANISOTROPY; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; JET AXIS; LARGE AREA TELESCOPES; LORENTZ FACTOR; QUASARS: GENERAL; RADIO JET; SCIENCE OPERATIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VIEWING ANGLE;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77951568856     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913740     Document Type: Article

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