The Continuing Saga of the Explosive Event(s) in the M87 Jet: Is M87 a Blazar?

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2007-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3124v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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7 pages with embedded b/w figures. To be published in the proceedings of "Extragalactic Jets: Theory and Observation from Radi

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We review the recent data on the knot HST-1 in the M87 jet in the context of typical blazar behavior. In particular we discuss the wide-band flare of 2005 which peaked at a factor of 50 to 80 times the intensity observed in 2000; the superluminal radio features; and the arguments that support the hypothesis that HST-1 was the source of the excess TeV emission found by H.E.S.S. in 2005. To the extent that M87 can be classified as a blazar, perhaps observed at a somewhat larger angle to the line of sight compared to most blazars, all of these blazar properties originate at a distance greater than 100 pc from the nucleus, and thus cannot be associated with the location of the 'launching of the jet'.

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