1 Astronomy, Radio Sources and Society Extragalactic radio sources and their importance for astronomy Leiden 10-13 June 2013 Ron Ekers CSIRO, Australia.
Chapter 17 Quasars and Active Galaxies. Introduction Quasars, and the way in which they became understood, have been one of the most exciting stories.
Tiziana Di Matteo et al- Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
Session: MGAT9 – Self-Gravitating Systems SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC RELATIVISTIC STELLAR CLUSTERS WITH ANISOTROPIC MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION Marco MERAFINA Department.
Optical Spectroscopy Introduction & Overview Ian Browne & Chris O’Dea Acknowledgements: Jerry Kriss & Jeff Valenti.
Announcements Test solutions are posted Pick up graded work Homework 13 is due a week from today. A spreadsheet of the data is posted on the web. No class.
Galaxies with Active Nuclei Chapter 17. You can imagine galaxies rotating slowly and quietly making new stars as the eons pass, but the nuclei of some.
March 7, 2006Astronomy 20101 Quasars – Unsolved mysteries? 2 basic things used for studying far away galaxies –the data encoded in the light received;
Introduction to Active Galactic Nulcei (AGN) Historical Background Taxonomy - Classes of AGN Brief overview of continuum and spectral characteristics.
Galaxies Live in Clusters Hickson Fornax. Coma Virgo.
The Discovery of Quasars (the first AGN found)
The Discovery of Quasars (the first AGN found) Maartin Schmidt – the ‘discoverer of quasars’ Cyril Hazard – the REAL DEAL.