Author : Joseph S. Miller
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780935702217
"Based on the 1984 Santa Cruz Astrophysics Workshop"--Verso t.p.
Author : David Merritt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400846129
Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes. Connected to the evolution of the galaxies that contain these black holes, galactic nuclei are the sites of uniquely energetic events, including quasars, stellar tidal disruptions, and the generation of gravitational waves. This textbook is the first comprehensive introduction to dynamical processes occurring in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in their galactic environment. Filling a critical gap, it is an authoritative resource for astrophysics and physics graduate students, and researchers focusing on galactic nuclei, the astrophysics of massive black holes, galactic dynamics, and gravitational wave detection. It is an ideal text for an advanced graduate-level course on galactic nuclei and as supplementary reading in graduate-level courses on high-energy astrophysics and galactic dynamics. David Merritt summarizes the theoretical work of the last three decades on the evolution of galactic nuclei, the formation of massive black holes, and the interaction between black holes and stars. He explores in depth such important topics as observations of galactic nuclei, dynamical models, weighing black holes, motion near supermassive black holes, evolution of nuclei due to gravitational encounters, loss cone theory, and binary supermassive black holes. Self-contained and up-to-date, the textbook includes a summary of the current literature and previously unpublished work by the author. For researchers working on active galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, and the generation of gravitational waves, this book will be an essential resource.
Author : Hagai Netzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107021510
A comprehensive introduction to the theory underpinning our study of active galactic nuclei and the ways we observe them.
Author : Bradley M. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521479110
How can we test if a supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every active galactic nucleus? What are LINERS, BL Lacs, N galaxies, broad-line radio galaxies and radio-quiet quasars and how do they compare? This timely textbook answers these questions in a clear, comprehensive and self-contained introduction to active galactic nuclei - for graduate students in astronomy and physics. The study of AGN is one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary astronomy, involving one fifth of all research astronomers. This textbook provides a systematic review of the observed properties of AGN across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, examines the underlying physics, and shows how the brightest AGN, quasars, can be used to probe the farthest reaches of the Universe. This book serves as both an entry point to the research literature and as a valuable reference for researchers in the field.
Author : Professor R. D. Blandford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2013-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662398168
Author : Donald E. Osterbrock
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781891389344
Thoroughly revised and expanded throughout, the new edition is a graduate-level text and reference book on gaseous nebulae, nova and supernova remnants. Much of the new data and new images are from the Hubble Space Telescope with two wholly new chapters being added along with other new features. The previous edition which was tried and tested for thirty years has now been succeeded by a revised, updated, larger edition, which will be valuable to anyone seriously interested in astrophysics.
Author : Volker Beckmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527410783
Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon. The spectral energy distribution will be discussed, pointing out what can be observed in different wavebands. The different physical models are presented together with formula important for the understanding of AGN physics. Furthermore, the authors discuss the AGN with respect to its environment, host galaxy, feedback in galaxies and in clusters of galaxies, variability, etc. and finally the cosmological evolution of the AGN phenomenon. This book includes phenomena based on new results in the X-Ray and gamma-ray domain from new telescopes such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, and the VHE regime not mentioned so far in AGN books. Those and other new developments as well as simulations of AGN merging events and formations, enabled through latest super-computing capabilities. From the contents: The observational picture of AGN Radiative processes The central engine AGN types and unification AGN through the electromagnetic spectrum AGN variability Environment Quasars and cosmology Formation, evolution and the ultimate fate of AGN What we do not know (yet)
Author : Boris Iglewicz
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1993-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873892607
Outliers are the key focus of this book. The authors concentrate on the practical aspects of dealing with outliers in the forms of data that arise most often in applications: single and multiple samples, linear regression, and factorial experiments. Available only as an E-Book.
Author : John N. Bahcall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691016061
The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technological renaissance. The emphasis of this collection of essays, composed by a stellar group of astronomers and astrophysicists, is on the current state of our knowledge as a preparation for future unraveling of more mysteries of the universe, which appear most amenable to solution. Aspiring atrophysicists will be enthralled.
Author : Francoise Combes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1394163711
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.
