'Active Galaxies - What are They?' - There are a lot of different sorts of active galaxy. This talk covers some of the types and looks at some of the details.
The areas discussed include:
Categorising | The problem we have of trying to fit different things into categories |
History | The discovery of AGNs; Broad lines; Seyferts; Quasars; BL Lacs; etc |
Blazars | Apparent superluminal movement |
Emissions Processes | Synchrotron; Jets; Relativistic beaming |
Radio Galaxies | M87; 3C31; Galaxy merger ellipticals |
Radio Structures | FRI; FRII; etc |
Dynamics | Longevity; Jets |
Host Galaxies | Ellipticals; Energy in lobes |
Other Types of AGN | Ones not covered yet; NLRGs; NLXGs; BLRGs; ULIRGs; Hot DOGs; Markarian; Zwicky; N galaxies; LINERs; density of AGNs |
Schematic Relationship | Flow chart for deciding which category we're looking at |
Unified Model | Angle of view; overview of AGN process; unified view; Milky Way |