1st Edition
by Volker Beckmann (Author), Chris Shrader (Author)
This AGN textbook includes
phenomena based on new results in the X-Ray domain from new telescopes
such as Chandra and XMM Newton not mentioned in any other book.
Furthermore, it considers also the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope with
its revolutionary advances of unprecedented sensitivity, field of view
and all-sky monitoring. Those and other new developments as well as
simulations of AGN merging events and formations, enabled through latest
super-computing capabilities.
The book 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 and with different physical models.
Furthermore, the authors discuss the AGN with respect to its
environment, host galaxy, feedback in galaxy clusters, etc. and finally
the cosmological evolution of the AGN phenomenon.
