The blazar sequence and its physical understanding

E Prandini, G Ghisellini - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Introduced in 1998 to attempt a first unified view of the broad-band emission properties of
blazars, the blazar sequence has been extensively used in the past 25 years to guide …

Understanding the phenomenological and intrinsic blazar sequence using a simple scaling model

ZJ Wan, R Xue, ZR Wang, HB Xiao… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The blazar sequence, including negative correlations between radiative luminosity L rad
and synchrotron peak frequency ν, and between Compton dominance Y and ν, is widely …

Estimation of inverse Compton peak frequency for 4FGL Blazars

JH Yang, JH Fan, Y Liu, MX Tuo, ZY Pei… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
This study uses a parabolic equation to fit the Inverse Compton (IC) spectral component of
3743 blazars (794 FSRQs, 1432 BL Lacs, and 1517 BCUs) from the 4FGL-DR3 catalog …

Origin of the broadband emission from the transition blazar B2 1308+ 326

A Pandey, P Kushwaha, PJ Wiita, R Prince… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Transition blazars exhibit a shift from one subclass to the next during different flux
states. It is therefore crucial to study them to understand the underlying physics of blazars …

On the jet properties of γ-ray-loud active galactic nuclei

L Chen - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Based on broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs), we estimate the jet physical
parameters of 1392 γ-ray-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the largest sample so far. The …

Radio and optical intra-day variability observations of five blazars

X Liu, PP Yang, J Liu, BR Liu, SM Hu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We carried out a pilot campaign of radio and optical band intra-day variability (IDV)
observations of five blazars (3C66A, S5 0716+ 714, OJ287, B0925+ 504 and BL Lacertae) …

Constraints on the Location of γ-Ray Sample of Blazars with Radio Core-shift Measurements

L Wu, Q Wu, D Yan, L Chen, X Fan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We model simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous multi-band spectral energy distributions
(SEDs) for a sample of 25 blazars that have radio core-shift measurements, where a one …

Comparison between Fermi detected and non-Fermi detected superluminal sources

HB Xiao, JH Fan, JH Yang, Y Liu, YH Yuan… - Science China Physics …, 2019 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been attracting research attention due to their special
observable properties. Specifically, a majority of AGNs are detected by Fermi-LAT missions …

Radio loudness and classification for radio sources

L Zhang, J Fan, J Zhu - … of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The extragalactic radio sources are divided into two subclasses (radio-loud and radio-quiet
sources) in the literature using radio loudness (R), which is defined as the ratio of radio …

Determining the ratio of the jet to the unbeamed luminosities for γ-ray blazars

Z Pei, Z Li, X Huang, Y Qian, D Huang… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The spectacular observational phenomena lying in blazars can be well explained and
described by the relativistic beaming effect that the emission in the jet is highly boosted …