Studying circumnuclear matter in AGN with X-ray spectroscopy

1998/10/31 by Giorgio Matt, Matt, Giorgio
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9811002

12 pages. Invited talk at the First XMM Workshop, Sep 30 - Oct 2, 1998

arxiv created 1998/10/31 · arxiv updated 2016/08/30

Abstract

I discuss the advances in our understanding of the physics and morphology of the innermost regions of AGNs which will be possible thanks to the XMM unprecedented sensitivity and its moderate to high energy resolution.

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