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C. R. Kitchin 
Galaxies in Turmoil 
The Active and Starburst Galaxies and the Black Holes That Drive Them

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Astronomers’ Universe Series is a new series aimed at active amateur astronomers but is appropriate to a wider audience of astronomically-informed readers. The book provides an up-to-date account of active galaxies. Lists of such objects and their visual and imaged appearance in commercially available telescopes are an important component of this book. The book makes sense of the chaotic and apparently innumerable types of violently active galaxies. It provides the data and teaches the skills needed for users of small telescopes to observe and image some of these ‘galaxies in turmoil’ for themselves.

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Introduction – What is a galaxy? – Galaxies in general – the difference between ‘ordinary’ and active galaxies.



The panoply of active galaxies: (Quasars, QSOs, Radio galaxies, BL Lacs, Blazars, LINERS, ULIRGS, Seyfert galaxies, Starburst galaxies, N galaxies, etc.) – what they are and what they do. (The images of many active galaxies are beautiful and spectacular, and the inclusion of a significant number of colour photographs is essential to the book.).



Active galaxies across the spectrum (activities and behaviours at radio, infrared, ultra-violet, x-ray and gamma ray wavelengths)



Explosions and jets – Multiple jets and why there is sometimes only one jet.



Faster than light – superluminal motions and how they occur.



The central black holes – Evidence for their existence – nature and properties of super-massive BHs – Jets and accretion disks – Energy sources – how BHs produce the features of active galaxies – how the BHs form.



Could the Milky Way become an Active galaxy? – and what would happen to life on Earth? – What will happen when the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy collide in 3, 000 million years?



Observing active galaxies using small telescopes.



Observing data (positions, magnitudes etc.) for the brighter active galaxies.



Bibliography / web site list


Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 298 ● ISBN 9781846286711 ● Bestandsgrootte 3.8 MB ● Uitgeverij Springer London ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2007 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2151527 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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