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1 online resource (xxx, 351 pages) : illustrations |
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Physics textbook |
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Physics textbook.
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| Contents |
Active Galactic Nuclei; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Astronomical and Physical Constants; Color Plates; 1 The Observational Picture of AGN; 1.1 From Welteninseln to AGN; 1.2 Broad Lines, Narrow Lines, and the Big Blue Bump; 1.3 Jets and Other Outflows; 1.4 X-ray Observations: Probing the Innermost Regions; 1.5 Up, Up and Away: from Gamma-Rays toward the TeV Range; 2 Radiative Processes; 2.1 Scattering of Photons; 2.1.1 Thomson Scattering; 2.1.2 Compton Scattering; 2.1.3 Inverse Compton Scattering; 2.1.4 Thermal Bremsstrahlung; 2.1.5 Pair Production; 2.2 Synchrotron Emission |
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2.2.1 Synchrotron Emission of a Particle Plasma2.2.2 Polarization; 2.2.3 Faraday Rotation; 2.2.4 Synchrotron Self-Absorption; 2.2.5 Synchrotron Self-Compton; 3 The Central Engine; 3.1 The Black Hole; 3.1.1 Approaching a Black Hole; 3.1.2 Evidence for Black Holes in AGN; 3.1.3 Gravitational Field Near a Black Hole: the Schwarzschild Metric; 3.1.4 Rotating Black Holes: the Kerr Metric; 3.2 Accretion Processes; 3.2.1 Accretion Basics: Bondi Accretion and the Eddington Limit; 3.2.2 Accretion and Viscous Dissipation in a Thin Disk; 3.2.3 Accretion in Thick Disks |
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3.2.4 Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows3.3 Absorption Close to the Black Hole; 3.3.1 The Torus Model; 3.3.2 Mass Loss in AGN; 3.4 Photoionization Modeling; 3.5 Narrow and Broad-Line Regions; 3.6 Reverberation Mapping: Probing the Scale of the BLR; 3.7 AGN Jets: Emission, Dynamics and Morphologies; 3.7.1 Raising the Jet; 3.7.2 Shocks and Knots; 3.7.3 Superluminal Motion; 4 AGN Types and Unification; 4.1 Seyfert Galaxies; 4.1.1 Optical Classification; 4.1.2 HII Regions; 4.1.3 X-ray Classification; 4.1.4 Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies; 4.2 Low-Luminosity AGN; 4.3 Ultraluminous X-ray Sources |
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4.4 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies -- ULIRGs4.5 Radio Galaxies; 4.6 Quasars; 4.6.1 Radio-Quiet Quasars; 4.6.2 Radio-Loud Quasars; 4.7 Blazars; 4.8 Unification of AGN; 4.8.1 Absorbed versus Unabsorbed AGN; 4.8.2 Radio-Loud versus Radio-Quiet; 4.8.3 Breaking the Unification; 4.8.4 Grand Unification of Black Holes in the Universe; 5 AGN through the Electromagnetic Spectrum; 5.1 Radio: Probing the Central Engine; 5.2 Infrared: Dust Near and Far; 5.3 Optical: Where It All Began; 5.4 UV: The Obscured Inner Disk; 5.5 X-rays: Absorption, Reflection, and Relativistically Altered Line Profiles |
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5.5.1 AGN in the X-ray from 1965 to the 1990s5.5.2 Today and Future X-ray Missions; 5.5.3 The X-ray Spectrum of AGN; 5.6 Gamma Rays: the Blazar-Dominated Sky; 5.7 VHE: the Evolving Domain; 5.7.1 The High-Energy End of the Spectrum; 5.8 The Whole Picture: the Spectral Energy Distribution; 5.8.1 SED of Blazars: a Whole Different Story; 5.8.2 The Spectral Energy Distribution of Nonbeamed Sources; 6 AGN Variability; 6.1 Variability in Radio-Quiet AGN; 6.2 Analysis Methods for Variability Studies; 6.3 Variability of Radio-Loud AGN; 6.4 Quasiperiodic Oscillations in AGN; 6.5 Rapid Variability |
| Summary |
"The book gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galactic Nuclei phenomenon. The spectral energy distribution will be discussed, pointing out what can be observed in different wavebands and discussing different physical models."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Active galactic nuclei.
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
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Active galactic nuclei.
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Aktiver galaktischer Kern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shrader, Chris R., 1955-
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| ISBN |
9783527666829 |
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3527666826 |
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9783527666812 |
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3527666818 |
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9781299759602 |
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1299759602 |
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