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Today I read the section of "Nature's Most Powerful Monsters" on quasars, blazars, and BL Lacs. Blazars are defined as very compact and highly variable energy sources at the centers of active galaxies (AGN). They are usually associated with supermassive black holes and can be split up into two groups: Optically Violently Variable quasars (a small subset of quasars), and BL- Lacertae objects (BL-Lacs). I spent time at home writing this and reading the wikipedia pages on quasars, blazars, and BL-Lacs.
 * October 29, 2007**

I got a copy of the Astronomy book that Dr. Loughran was handing out today. I looked at Chapter 17 on Galaxies with Active Nuclei. It has some pretty sweet pictures at the middle of the chapter. It also talked about active galaxies and the difference between them and normal galaxies. Active ones give off way more radio waves, as well as more infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray emissions. At home, I spent some more time reading about Seyfert galaxies which have small, highly luminous nuclei.
 * October 30, 2007**

Today I consulted Kyle about what exactly he did last year and when we are going to pick up where he left off. Things seems to be moving fairly slowly because I'm trying to learn all of this stuff again while he is reviewing it.
 * November 1, 2007**

Half day today. We didn't get much done but I did look at the NMPM and tried to figure out how the graphical analysis worked.
 * November 2, 2007**


 * NOTE**: For some reason, My original logbook that I wrote up was deleted, so a lot of the days may be mixed up, However, I know that that's what I did, I just don't remember what I did each particular day.

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