Blazars and the emerging AGN/black hole X-ray binary paradigm
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We briefly review the emerging paradigm which links the radio-quiet and radio-loud classes of AGN to the different accretion states observed in stellar mass black hole X-ray binary systems (BHXRBs), and discuss the relevance of the AGN/BHXRB connection to blazar variability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0508060,
title = {Blazars and the emerging AGN/black hole X-ray binary paradigm},
author = {P. Uttley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0508060},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop on `Blazar Variability: entering the GLAST Era', Miami, April 2005 (ASP Conf. Series)