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High Energy Phenomena in AGN Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

F. Takahara*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan

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BL-Lac objects and optically violent variable quasars (OVVs), called together blazars, are characterized by rapid time variability, strong optical polarization, superluminal expansion and strong gamma-ray emission. Such properties are understood in the framework of a relativistic jet emanated from the central powerhouse. Blazars are considered to be objects for which the direction of the jet is very close to the line of sight.

Type
Session 3: Diagnostics of High Gravity Objects with X- and Gamma Rays
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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