Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 6, Symposium S275 (Jets at all Scales)  

Contributed Papers

Relativistic jets at high energies

Amir Levinsona1

a1 School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978, Israel email: levinson@wise.tau.ac.il

Abstract

A recent progress in the study of γ-ray jets is reviewed, with a focus on some theoretical interpretations of the VHE emission from M87, and possibly other misaligned blazars; the connection between the GeV breaks exhibited by bright LAT blazars and opacity sources in the broad line region; the consequences of the detection of GeV emission from GRBs to models of magnetic outflows; and the implications of the thermal emission observed is some GRBs to dissipation of the outflow bulk energy.

(Online publication February 24 2011)

Keywords

  • Jets;
  • blazars;
  • gamma ray bursts