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Issues in Blazar Research

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

As an overview of blazar research, we briefly discuss some of the themes of this conference, including the various types of blazars, blazar samples and selection effects, unified schemes, evolution, and jet physics.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101249,
  title  = {Issues in Blazar Research},
  author = {Paolo Padovani and C. Megan Urry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101249},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure. Summary talk at the Workshop "Blazar Demographics and Physics", Baltimore, July 2000, ASP Conf. Series, P. Padovani and C. M. Urry eds., in press. Postscript file also available at http://www.stsci.edu/~padovani/unif_papers.html