Scientific Seminars

Blazars in the Fermi era

L. Foschini
INAF-OABrera

2009-05-14    14.30    Merate - POE

The launch of the Fermi satellite in June 2008 has opened a new era in the studies of high-energy emission from active galactic nuclei. After just three months of operations, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi performed an all-sky survey with unprecedented sensitivity and source location accuracy, revealing 132 bright sources at |b|>10 deg with significance greater than 10 sigma. 106 of them are associated with high-confidence to AGN, namely 104 blazars and 2 radiogalaxies. I review the discoveries with Fermi and the work currently ongoing in the blazars research field.