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Active Galactic Nuclei

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beckmann, Volker
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 2.1.5 Pair Production -- 2.2 Synchrotron Emission -- 2.2.1 Synchrotron Emission of a Particle Plasma -- 2.2.2 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 
505 8 |a 3.2.2 Accretion and Viscous Dissipation in a Thin Disk -- 3.2.3 Accretion in Thick Disks -- 3.2.4 Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows -- 3.3 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 
505 8 |a 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 -- 4.4 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies -- ULIRGs -- 4.5 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 
505 8 |a 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 -- 5.5.1 AGN in the X-ray from 1965 to the 1990s -- 5.5.2 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 
500 |a 6.1 Variability in Radio-Quiet AGN 
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