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In this paper, we review the latest research results on the topic of blazar sequence. It seems that the blazar sequence is phenomenally ruled out, while the theoretical blazar sequence still holds. We point out that black hole mass is a dominated parameter accounting for high-power-high-synchrotron-peaked and low-power-low-sychrotron-peaked blazars. Because most blazars have similar size of emission region, theoretical blazar sequence implies that the break of Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) is a cooling break in nature.
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This work is supported by the NSFC (grants 11233006, 11173043, 11078008 and 11103060) and XTP project XDA04060604.
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Chen, L. Blazar Sequence in Fermi Era. J Astrophys Astron 35, 337–339 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-014-9225-9
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