Scientific Seminars

Multiwavelength studies of the blazars detected by AGILE

F. D'Ammando
INAF-IASF Palermo

2010-06-08    14.30    Merate - POE

During the first 3 years of operation the AGILE satellite detected several blazars in a high gamma-ray state: 3C 454.3, PKS 1510-089, S5 0716+714, 3C 273, 3C 279, W Comae, Mrk 421 and PKS 0537- 441. Extensive campaigns were organized for most of them, involving observatories spreading across many wavelength bands such as Spitzer, Swift, RXTE, Suzaku, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, MAGIC, VERITAS, and ARGO as well as radio-to-optical coverage by means of the GASP Project of the WEBT and the REM Telescope. This large multifrequency coverage gave us the opportunity to study the variability correlations between the emission at different frequencies and to build truly simultaneous spectral energy distributions of these sources from radio to gamma-rays, investigating the different emission mechanisms of the blazars and uncovering in some cases a more complex behaviour with respect to the standard models. We present an overview of the most interesting AGILE results on these gamma-ray blazars and the relative multiwavelength data.