Red and blue blazars

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Apr 2001

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HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: International Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 558, pp. 338-345 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Active And Peculiar Galaxies And Related Systems, Jets And Bursts, Galactic Winds And Fountains

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Being dominated by relativistic jets oriented close to the line of sight, blazars are rare laboratories to study jet physics. The first clues are provided by their broad-band Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) and the observed spectral trends with bolometric luminosity. These show that a rich variety of SED shapes exist, with so-called red and blue sources forming the two extremes of a continuous distribution. These trends can be understood in terms of different preferred cooling mechanisms in the jet, which in turn depend on source power and the jet's ambient radiation. Here I summarize nearly one decade of study of blazars SEDs, pointing out possible selection biases affecting current datasets. .

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