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Warm Absorbers in Active Galactic Nuclei

2002/02/18 by Smita Mathur, Mathur, Smita
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0202335

Invited review presented at the "Multicolour Universe" conference, held in Mumbai, India, Sept. 2001

arxiv created 2002/02/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Observations of warm absorbers provided new ways to study the nuclear environments of AGNs. I discuss basic properties of warm absorbers and early developments with ROSAT, ASCA and HST observations. I briefly touch upon recent advances made with Chandra and FUSE.

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