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Blazars in the Web
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Created and maintained (not regularly)
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Blazars are a subset of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN or active galaxies). This radio-loud extragalactic objects are optically violent variable quasars, flat-spectrum quasars, high polarized quasars, and BL Lacertae (BL Lac) type objects, which display extremely intense, broad and rapidly varing electromagnetic emission, from radio to gamma-rays in some case. This emission is thought to originate in a relativistic plasma jet which is probably to be powered and accelerated by a billion solar mass black hole in gravitational accretion. Blazars show intense, flat-spectrum radio-loud emission, and their relativistic jet point nearly straight toward us. The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory-EGRET found that many blazars are intense gamma-ray sources. This has been one of the most exciting astrophysical discovery of past decade. They are called classic BL Lac type objects if the optical continuum emission dominates compared to any line emission. Briefly a blazar, is an object thet have the following characteristics: 1) It appear optically point-like on the sky, i.e. not appear
widespread like a galaxy or a nebula. Some blazars have nebulae around
them (are fuzzy), but most of the light comes from a point source. |
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| - Blazar paper abstracts by ADS-NASA - Blazar by Google |
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Main Blazar Sites
Other Blazar Pages |
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Planck Institute GLAST - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Blazar Observations and data at Ondrejov Observatory Whipple Observations of TeV Blazar BL Lac Monitoring at Iowa University Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CRAO) Ast123 course with AGN pages by Jim Brau Blazar/QSO by belmontsoc (amateur telescopes)
Blazar, AGN & Related Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysysik High Energy and Hydrodynamics Research AGN Jet Research at MPI fuer Astronomie WKU Center for Automated Space Science Department of Astronomy University of São Paulo |
Georgia University AGN Research AGN Page at Masaryk University AGN at Dep. of Space PRL of India, Astroph. Division Alan Bridle Double Lobed AGN Page AGN Research at Australia Teles. Nat. Facility Cambridge University AGN Research AGN Research at Australia Telescope National Facility Mannheim Particle Astrophysics Research AGN Divulgation and Research at MSSL London University AGN Research at PennState University ASP Conf. Series 100 - Jet Workshop X-Ray Astronomy at ISAS (Japan) Grenoble LAOG AstroPlasma Research Astro Fluid Dynamics at Leeds Univ |
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Blazar Curiosities
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