The Devil is in the Details: Using High-Cadence, Multiwavelength Observations to Understand the Disk-Jet Connection in Blazars

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets that point near the Earth line-of-sight, making them inherently variable sources that are a staple of time-domain and multiwavelength astronomy. This orientation makes them ideal laboratories for studying relativistic jet physics and its interplay with the other AGN components. This talk will review historical and current attempts at disentangling accretion disk and jet emission in these jet-dominated systems —primarily by way of high-cadence, multiwavelength spectroscopic and photometric observations—  and build a better understanding of the in/outflow processes of some of Nature’s most powerful particle accelerators.