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DTSTART:20141212T200000Z
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LOCATION:5280 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Variability of TeV gamma-ray blazars\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/
 Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Qi Feng\, Purdue University
DESCRIPTION:Blazars belong to a subclass of radio loud AGN with a rela
 tivistic jet closely aligned to our line of sight. They are characteri
 zed by highly variable non-thermal emission at almost all wavelengths.
  Similar to gamma-ray bursts\, the studies of gamma-ray variability ca
 n shed light on gamma-ray emitting regions and production mechanisms i
 n blazars in a relatively model-independent way. With its superior sen
 sitivity\, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
  (VERITAS) provides us with an opportunity to study rapidly variable g
 amma-ray emission at TeV energies. In this talk\, I will describe the 
 VERITAS experiment and show some recent results from our studies of bl
 azar variability that are based primarily on the VERITAS observations 
 but are interpreted in a multi-wavelength context. <br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3532
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