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Jets in Quasars

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In my review of jet phenomena in quasars, I focus on the following questions: How powerful are jets in radio-loud quasars? What is their composition? How are they launched? And why, in most quasars, are they so weak? I demonstrate the exceptional role that blazar studies can play in exploring the physics and structure of the innermost parts of quasar jets.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101381,
  title  = {Jets in Quasars},
  author = {M. Sikora},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101381},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Invited talk at the Workshop "Blazar Demographics and Physics", Baltimore, July 2000, ASP Conf. Series, Eds. P. Padovani and C. M. Urry, in press