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Phenomenological Analogies in TeV Blazars and Black Hole X-ray Binaries in low state

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Blazars are well known for the violent variability from the radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. In this paper, we present a brief summary of the X-ray variability recently obtained for TeV blazars. We also point out the probable similarities of the X-ray variability characteristics between blazars and microblazars. Such phenomenological analogies could be interpreted and unified with the synchrotron X-ray emissions from the jets of the two classes of objects that differ in black hole mass by factors of \ga107\ga 10^7. The phenomenological analogies in blazars and microblazars (both are jet-dominated) might be parallel to those in black hole X-ray binaries in high/soft state and Seyfert galaxies (both are disk-dominated).

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0505159,
  title  = {Phenomenological Analogies in TeV Blazars and Black Hole X-ray Binaries in low state},
  author = {Y. H. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0505159},
  year   = {2007}
}

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to appear in the proceeding of the 5th Microquasar workshop held on June 7-13, 2004, Beijing, China (Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press)