HEAD 2003 Meeting
Session 23. Jets, Blazars and TeV Astronomy I
Invited, Sunday, March 23, 2003, 4:00-5:00pm

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[23.01] Jets in active galaxies

F. Tavecchio (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera-Italy)

I discuss recent developments in the field of relativistic jets in AGNs. After a brief review of our current knowledge of emission from Blazars, I discuss some consequences of the recent detection made by Chandra of X-ray emission from extended jets. I show how, for a small selected group of quasars, we can probe the jet both at the Blazar scale (<0.1 pc) and at the 100 kpc scale: this study can help us to obtain important information on the dynamics of the jet for the innermost region of the AGN to the external regions. Finally I report some recent results on the problem of the connection between accretion and jets, study that in principle could shed light on the important issue of jet formation.



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