Variability in active galactic nuclei: confrontation of models with observations

2001/10/31 by M. R. S. Hawkins · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Active galactic nucleus #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Flux (metallurgy) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Gravitational microlensing #Light curve #Physics #Quasar #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Supernova #Variation (astronomy) #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.04939.x

published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 329 (2002) 76 · 12 pages including 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Abstract

Forty years after the discovery of quasars there is still much uncertainty about their structure. There is, arguably, broad agreement about the basic nature and overall arrangement

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• A Robust Determination of the Time Delay in 0957+561A,B and a Measurement of the Global Value of Hubble's Constant
• Steps toward Determination of the Size and Structure of the Broad‐Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. XV. Long‐Term Optical Monitoring of NGC 5548

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