The cosmological impact of luminous TeV blazars. I. Implications of plasma instabilities for the intergalactic magnetic field and extragalactic gamma-ray background

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 752, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Broderick, Avery E ^a,b,c   Chang, Philip ^a,d   Pfrommer, Christoph ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^e HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; gamma rays: general; instabilities; magnetic fields; plasmas; radiation mechanisms: non thermal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861390506     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/22     Document Type: Article

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