The Net Advance of Physics:

QUASARS AND BLAZARS

OVERVIEWS:

• Gamma-ray Emitting AGN and Unified Schemes, by Paolo Padovani, 97/04:
• astro-ph/9609023: An Overview of Blazar Variability, by C. Megan Urry. Favors view that blazar variability is due to synchrotron and Compton-scattered emission from a relativistic jet.

SPECTRUM:

• astro-ph/9512086: Cosmological Adventures in the Lyman Forest, by S. Cristiani: Reviews information which can be extracted from quasar Lyman-alpha absorption spectra.