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.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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