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BL Lac Objects

Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Como, Italy, September 20–23, 1988

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 334)

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Table of contents (59 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Statistics of superluminal sources

    • Marshall H. Cohen
    Pages 13-21
  3. VLBI polarization measurements of BL Lacertae objects

    • D. C. Gabuzda, T. V. Cawthorne, D. H. Roberts, J. F. C. Wardle
    Pages 22-25
  4. Statistical properties of radio polarization of blazars

    • Okudaira Atuya, Tabara Hiroto, Kato Tatsuji, Inoue Makoto
    Pages 26-29
  5. Optical observations of a complete sample of radio selected BL Lac objects

    • Manfred Stickel, Josef W. Fried, Helmut Kühr
    Pages 64-72
  6. Beamed ionizing radiation in radio galaxies

    • C. N. Tadhunter, R. A. E. Fosbury, S. di Serego Alighieri
    Pages 79-86
  7. What are the emission line filaments along the radio axis of Centaurus A?

    • R. Morganti, C. N. Tadhunter, R. A. E. Fosbury, D. Malin
    Pages 87-91
  8. Narrow band imaging close to the nuclei of BL Lac objects

    • Jean P. Brodie, Jean-Michel Deharveng, Stuart Bowyer
    Pages 92-102
  9. Anisotropic ionising continuum emission in AGNs

    • E. J. A. Meurs, S. W. Unger, A. Pedlar, D. Axon, M. Whittle, M. J. Ward
    Pages 103-106
  10. Polarization OF BL Lac objects

    • Michael L. Sitko
    Pages 119-126
  11. Simultaneous UBVRI polarimetry of blazars

    • L. Valtaoja, A. Sillanpää, E. Valtaoja, Yu. Efimov, N. Shakhovskoy
    Pages 127-130
  12. An optical polarization survey for BL Lacs

    • Buell T. Jannuzi, Richard F. Green
    Pages 135-138
  13. Long-term optical variability of BL Lac objects

    • Ewa Szuszkiewicz, Cesare Barbieri, Enrico Cappellaro, Giuliano Romano, Massimo Turatto
    Pages 139-142

About this book

This volume gives a comprehensible survey of BL Lac objects: contributors summarize observations on these interesting astrophysical objects and present theoretical models to explain them. Understanding these objects should help to give a better insight into the physics of black holes and relativistic plasmas. Topics addressed cover radio jets expanding at superluminal velocities, possible effects of relativistic jets on interstellar matter, the continuum emission over the whole electromagnetic system and its variability, and the impact of these observations on gravitational lensing and cosmological evolution. The book should be immensely useful for graduate students.

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