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Active galactic nuclei [[electronic resource] /] / Volker Beckmann and Chris Shrader
| Active galactic nuclei [[electronic resource] /] / Volker Beckmann and Chris Shrader |
| Autore | Beckmann Volker <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH |
| Descrizione fisica | xxx, 351 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 523.112 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ShraderChris R. <1955-> |
| Collana | Physics textbook |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Galaxies |
| ISBN |
3-527-66680-X
3-527-66682-6 3-527-66681-8 |
| Classificazione |
443.6
523.112 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795969303321 |
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| Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Active galactic nuclei / Ian Robson
| Active galactic nuclei / Ian Robson |
| Autore | Robson, Ian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | xxiv, 350 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Disciplina |
52.9.51
523.1'12 QB858.3 |
| Collana | Wiley-Praxis series in astronomy and astrophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Astrophysics |
| ISBN |
0471958530 (cloth)
0471960500 (paperback) |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003068229707536 |
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Robson, Ian
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| Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 1996 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Active galactic nuclei / / edited by Françoise Combes
| Active galactic nuclei / / edited by Françoise Combes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Disciplina | 523.112 |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Galaxies |
| ISBN |
1-394-16372-X
1-394-16370-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910677289303321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2022] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Active galactic nuclei / / Volker Beckmann and Chris Shrader
| Active galactic nuclei / / Volker Beckmann and Chris Shrader |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH |
| Descrizione fisica | xxx, 351 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 523.112 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ShraderChris R. <1955-> |
| Collana | Physics textbook |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Galaxies |
| ISBN |
3-527-66680-X
3-527-66682-6 3-527-66681-8 |
| Classificazione |
443.6
523.112 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 -- 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 -- 7 Environment -- 7.1 Host Galaxies of AGN -- 7.1.1 Are There Naked Black Holes? -- 7.1.2 Morphological Classification of Galaxies -- 7.1.3 Host Galaxy and Black Hole Mass -- 7.1.4 AGN-Host Galaxy Feedback -- 7.2 The AGN-Starburst Connection -- 7.2.1 Estimating the Star-Formation Rate -- 7.2.2 AGN-Starburst Feedback -- 7.3 Merging -- 7.4 AGN in Clusters of Galaxies -- 8 Quasars and Cosmology -- 8.1 The Universe We Live in -- 8.1.1 Geometry and Distances -- 8.1.2 Measuring Fluxes -- 8.1.3 The Three-Component Universe -- 8.1.4 From the Big Bang to the Cosmic Microwave Background -- 8.1.5 The Dark Matter Universe. 8.2 AGN and the Distribution of Matter on Large Scales -- 9 Formation, Evolution and the Ultimate Fate of AGN -- 9.1 The First AGN: How Did They Form? -- 9.2 Tools to Study AGN Evolution -- 9.2.1 The Number-Flux Relation -- 9.2.2 The V/Vmax Test -- 9.2.3 Luminosity Function -- 9.3 Luminosity Functions of AGN -- 9.4 AGN and the Cosmic X-ray Background -- 9.5 The Late Stages of an AGN's Life and Reignition SMBH -- 10 What We Don't Know (Yet) -- 10.1 The Central Engine -- 10.2 Environment, Interaction, and Feedback -- 10.3 Origin, Evolution, and Fate -- 10.4 Continuing the Quest -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813824903321 |
| Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Continuum radiation from active galactic nuclei [[electronic resource] ] : a statistical study / / Takashi Isobe ... [and others]
| Continuum radiation from active galactic nuclei [[electronic resource] ] : a statistical study / / Takashi Isobe ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], , [1986] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 volume |
| Altri autori (Persone) | IsobeTakashi |
| Collana | NASA-CR |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Astrophysics BL Lacertae objects Bremsstrahlung Continuum mechanics Quasars Radio sources (astronomy) Statistical analysis |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Continuum radiation from active galactic nuclei |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910698863003321 |
| [Washington, D.C.] : , : [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], , [1986] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa
| The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CepaJordi |
| Collana | Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Emission-line galaxies
Active galactic nuclei |
| ISBN |
1-107-20222-1
1-281-98251-2 9786611982515 0-511-46435-5 0-511-46277-8 0-511-46509-2 0-511-46202-6 0-511-55203-3 0-511-46356-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Participants; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What can emission lines tell us?; 2. The observer's perspective: Emission-line surveys; 3. The astrophysics of early galaxy formation; 4. Primeval galaxies; 5. Active galactic nuclei; 6. Chemical evolution; 7. Galactic sources of emission lines; 8. Narrow-band imaging; 9. Long-slit spectroscopy; 10. Basic principles of tunable filters |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809450503321 |
| Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa [[electronic resource]]
| The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
| Collana | Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Emission-line galaxies
Active galactic nuclei |
| ISBN |
1-107-20222-1
1-281-98251-2 9786611982515 0-511-46435-5 0-511-46277-8 0-511-46509-2 0-511-46202-6 0-511-55203-3 0-511-46356-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Participants; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What can emission lines tell us?; 2. The observer's perspective: Emission-line surveys; 3. The astrophysics of early galaxy formation; 4. Primeval galaxies; 5. Active galactic nuclei; 6. Chemical evolution; 7. Galactic sources of emission lines; 8. Narrow-band imaging; 9. Long-slit spectroscopy; 10. Basic principles of tunable filters |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454434903321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa [[electronic resource]]
| The emission-line universe : XVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics / / edited by Jordi Cepa [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
| Collana | Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Emission-line galaxies
Active galactic nuclei |
| ISBN |
1-107-20222-1
1-281-98251-2 9786611982515 0-511-46435-5 0-511-46277-8 0-511-46509-2 0-511-46202-6 0-511-55203-3 0-511-46356-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Participants; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What can emission lines tell us?; 2. The observer's perspective: Emission-line surveys; 3. The astrophysics of early galaxy formation; 4. Primeval galaxies; 5. Active galactic nuclei; 6. Chemical evolution; 7. Galactic sources of emission lines; 8. Narrow-band imaging; 9. Long-slit spectroscopy; 10. Basic principles of tunable filters |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782690303321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multiwavelength AGN surveys [[electronic resource] ] : Cozumel, Mexico, 8-12 December 2003 / / editors: Raúl Mújica, Roberto Maiolino
| Multiwavelength AGN surveys [[electronic resource] ] : Cozumel, Mexico, 8-12 December 2003 / / editors: Raúl Mújica, Roberto Maiolino |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Hackensack], New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MújicaRaúl
MaiolinoR (Roberto) |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Galactic nuclei |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-89848-1
9786611898489 981-270-243-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Scientific Organizing Committee; Contents; Preface; Part I. AGN Surveys; X-ray Surveys; Optical and Infrared Surveys; Radio and Millimeter Surveys; Part II. Results from Surveys; Statistical Properties of Local AGN; Unification and Unconventional AGN; Spectral Energy Distribution; Luminosity Functions, Evolution and Contribution to the Cosmic Background; AGN-Galaxy Coevolution and Relic Black Holes; AGN and Large Scale Structures; Author Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Proceedings of the Guillermo Haro Conference 2003 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451348203321 |
| [Hackensack], New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multiwavelength AGN surveys [[electronic resource] ] : Cozumel, Mexico, 8-12 December 2003 / / editors: Raúl Mújica, Roberto Maiolino
| Multiwavelength AGN surveys [[electronic resource] ] : Cozumel, Mexico, 8-12 December 2003 / / editors: Raúl Mújica, Roberto Maiolino |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Hackensack], New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.1/12 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MújicaRaúl
MaiolinoR (Roberto) |
| Soggetto topico |
Active galactic nuclei
Galactic nuclei |
| ISBN |
1-281-89848-1
9786611898489 981-270-243-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Scientific Organizing Committee; Contents; Preface; Part I. AGN Surveys; X-ray Surveys; Optical and Infrared Surveys; Radio and Millimeter Surveys; Part II. Results from Surveys; Statistical Properties of Local AGN; Unification and Unconventional AGN; Spectral Energy Distribution; Luminosity Functions, Evolution and Contribution to the Cosmic Background; AGN-Galaxy Coevolution and Relic Black Holes; AGN and Large Scale Structures; Author Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Proceedings of the Guillermo Haro Conference 2003 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783913703321 |
| [Hackensack], New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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