2000/12/15 by P. Padovani, Paolo Padovani, Padovani, Paolo
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0012355
13 pages, 4 figures. Self-invited talk at the Workshop "Blazar Demographics and Physics", Baltimore, July 2000, ASP Conf. Series, P. Padovani and C. M. Urry eds., in press. Postscript file also available at http://www.stsci.edu/~padovani/survey.html
arxiv created 2000/12/15 · openalex publication_date 2000/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I address the need for deep blazar surveys by showing that our current understanding of blazars is based on a relatively small number of intrinsically luminous sources. I then review the on-going deeper surveys, addressing in particular their limits and limitations. Finally, I present some preliminary results on the evolutionary properties of faint blazars as derived from the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS).