Author: Danielle Alloin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783540819530
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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This book contains a collection of lecture notes written by recognized experts in the field of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The collection is aimed at providing both an introduction and at the same time an overview of the state-of-the-art of AGN research. This book also addresses the still not entirely understood link of an AGN with its host galaxy and also the related question of the birth and growth of massive black holes in the Universe.
Author: Danielle Alloin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 354034621X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Book Description
This book contains a collection of lecture notes written by recognized experts in the field of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The collection is aimed at providing both an introduction and at the same time an overview of the state-of-the-art of AGN research. This book also addresses the still not entirely understood link of an AGN with its host galaxy and also the related question of the birth and growth of massive black holes in the Universe.
Author: Bradley M. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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How can we test if a supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every active galactic nucleus? What are LINERS, BL Lacs, N galaxies, broad-line radio galaxies and radio-quiet quasars and how do they compare? This timely textbook answers these questions in a clear, comprehensive and self-contained introduction to active galactic nuclei - for graduate students in astronomy and physics. The study of AGN is one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary astronomy, involving one fifth of all research astronomers. This textbook provides a systematic review of the observed properties of AGN across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, examines the underlying physics, and shows how the brightest AGN, quasars, can be used to probe the farthest reaches of the Universe. This book serves as both an entry point to the research literature and as a valuable reference for researchers in the field.
Author: Volker Beckmann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 352766680X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon. The spectral energy distribution will be discussed, pointing out what can be observed in different wavebands. The different physical models are presented together with formula important for the understanding of AGN physics. Furthermore, the authors discuss the AGN with respect to its environment, host galaxy, feedback in galaxies and in clusters of galaxies, variability, etc. and finally the cosmological evolution of the AGN phenomenon. This book includes phenomena based on new results in the X-Ray and gamma-ray domain from new telescopes such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, and the VHE regime not mentioned so far in AGN books. Those and other new developments as well as simulations of AGN merging events and formations, enabled through latest super-computing capabilities. From the contents: The observational picture of AGN Radiative processes The central engine AGN types and unification AGN through the electromagnetic spectrum AGN variability Environment Quasars and cosmology Formation, evolution and the ultimate fate of AGN What we do not know (yet)
Author: Hagai Netzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021510
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A comprehensive introduction to the theory underpinning our study of active galactic nuclei and the ways we observe them.
Author: Markus Boettcher
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 3527410376
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Written by a carefully selected consortium of researchers working in the field, this book fills the gap for an up-to-date summary of the observational and theoretical status. As such, this monograph includes all used wavelengths, from radio to gamma, the FERMI telescope, a history and theory refresher, and jets from gamma ray bursts. For astronomers, nuclear physicists, and plasmaphysicists.
Author: Wolfgang J. Duschl
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: Francoise Combes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 178945087X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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All galaxies host a super-massive black hole in their center. These black holes grow their mass in symbiosis with their host galaxy and moderate their star formation. When matter is driven towards the nucleus, an accretion disk is formed to transfer angular momentum and considerable energy is released when the material falls into the black hole: this is the phenomenon of active galactic nuclei (AGN). A nucleus can shine one thousand times more brightly than the entire galaxy with its 200 billion stars. The nuclear activity can take many forms, from very powerful quasars to more ordinary Seyfert galaxies, passing by radio-galaxies, which eject a collimated plasma at ten times the radius of the galaxy. This book examines all of these manifestations and presents a unified view. When two galaxies merge, a binary black hole is formed and the two black holes will spiral inwards and merge, emitting long gravitational waves, which could be detected by the future LISA satellite.
Author: Joseph S. Miller
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9780935702217
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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"Based on the 1984 Santa Cruz Astrophysics Workshop"--Verso t.p.
Author: Ajit K. Kembhavi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479899
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Book Description
The latest observations and theoretical models are combined in this clear, pedagogic textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
