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The Nearest Active Galaxies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

The Nearest Active Galaxies

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Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Active Galactic Nuclei

Understanding the energy source and physical processes within active galaxies are the most challenging areas of current research. Using a logical format and easy-to-follow explanations, Robson demonstrates the crucial connections between observation and theory, illustrating how diverse classes of active galaxies fit into the contemporary perspective. Summary sections explain the physical concepts behind the mathematics.

Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Active Galactic Nuclei

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.

Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at all Scales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at all Scales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

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.

Galaxies in Turmoil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Galaxies in Turmoil

Astronomers' Universe Series is a new series aimed at active amateur astronomers but is appropriate to a wider audience of astronomically-informed readers. The book provides an up-to-date account of active galaxies. Lists of such objects and their visual and imaged appearance in commercially available telescopes are an important component of this book. The book makes sense of the chaotic and apparently innumerable types of violently active galaxies. It provides the data and teaches the skills needed for users of small telescopes to observe and image some of these "galaxies in turmoil" for themselves.

Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534

Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies

How gas flows and starbursts light up active galaxies.

Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei

The latest observations and theoretical models are combined in this clear, pedagogic textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

The Physics and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Physics and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei

Research into active galactic nuclei (AGN) – the compact, luminous hearts of many galaxies – is at the forefront of modern astrophysics. Understanding these objects requires extensive knowledge in many different areas: accretion disks, the physics of dust and ionized gas, astronomical spectroscopy, star formation, and the cosmological evolution of galaxies and black holes. This new text by Hagai Netzer, a renowned astronomer and leader in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory underpinning our study of AGN and the ways that we observe them. It emphasizes the basic physics underlying AGN, the different types of active galaxies and their various components, and the complex interplay between them and other astronomical objects. Recent developments regarding the evolutionary connections between active galaxies and star-forming galaxies are explained in detail. Both graduate students and researchers will benefit from Netzer's authoritative contributions to this exciting field of research.

Astrophysics Of Quasi-Stellar Objects And Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Astrophysics Of Quasi-Stellar Objects And Active Galactic Nuclei

"Based on the 1984 Santa Cruz Astrophysics Workshop"--Verso t.p.

Active Galaxies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Active Galaxies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-12
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book explores the physical processes which occur within active galaxies and explains various emission mechanisms which operate in different physical regions of these systems and presents evidence for unification schemes of their various subclasses.Please note that activities in this book involve readings from the textbook, Active Galactic Nuclei, by Peterson, published by Cambridge University Press, and also include activities on the web, spreadsheet calculations and activities from the CD ROM Blocks 1-4 Image Archive.