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arxiv: 1705.10166 · v1 · pith:WAOJ2K5Mnew · submitted 2017-05-29 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

What we talk about when we talk about blazars?

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keywords blazarscharacteristicsgalaxiesnarrow-lineseyfertsometalkword
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After the discovery of powerful relativistic jets from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies, and the understanding of their similarity with those of blazars, a problem of terminology was born. The word blazar is today associated to BL Lac Objects and Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars, which are somehow different from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies. Using the same word for all the three classes of AGN could drive either toward some misunderstanding, or to the oversight of some important characteristics. I review the main characteristics of these sources, and finally I propose a new scheme of classification.

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