Name of the Speaker(s): Reshmi Mukherjee
Institution: NASA, Goddard Space Fight Center, Code 661, Bldg 2 Greenbelt MD 20771
Title of the communication: EGRET Observations of High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Blazars
Preliminary abstract (12 lines max.): The Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) has so far detected about 60 blazars, around 50 of which are high confidence detections. A summary of the observations including flux variations and spectra of the blazars will be presented. Multiwavelength data for some selected blazars will also be presented. The high luminosities and rapid time variations seen in the gamma-ray data indicate that gamma-rays are an important component of the relativistic jet thought to characterize blazars.