BL Lac Objects
Subtitle: Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Como, Italy, September 20-23, 1988
By: edited by L. Maraschi, T. Maccacaro, M. -H. Ulrich
Contributors: Maccacaro, T.; Ulrich, M. H.
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics -- 334; Lecture notes in physics -- 334.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9783540513896; 9783540462033
Subjects: Astrophysics; Plasma (Ionized gases); Astronomy; Physics; Physical geography
Description: 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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