Probing the physics of Seyfert galaxies using their emission-line regions

Journal Article · Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2015 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4937705· OSTI ID:22494419

Kharb, P.; Jose, J.; Ramya, S.; Bhatt, H. C.; Gupta, M. ^[1]; Dopita, M.; Kewley, L.; Davies, R.; Sutherland, R.; Hampton, E. ^[2]; Scharwächter, J. ^[3]; Banfield, J. ^[4]; Srivastava, S. ^[5]; Jin, J. ^[6]; Basurah, H. ^[7]; Fischer, S. ^[8]; Panda, S. ^[9]; Sundar, M. N. ^[10]; Radhakrishnan, V. ^[11]

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1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore (India)
2. RSAA, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)
3. LERMA, Paris Observatory (France)
4. CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Epping (Australia)
5. Department of Physics, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (India)
6. Department of Physics, University of Durham (United Kingdom)
7. Astronomy Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
8. German Aerospace Center, Bonn (Germany)
9. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (India)
10. Jain University, Bangalore (India)
11. Broadcom Corporation, Bangalore (India)

Active galaxies have powerhouses of radiation in their nuclear regions that are driven by accreting super-massive black holes. The accretion system also generates outflows of ionized gas and synchrotron-emitting bipolar jets of plasma, which could have a significant impact on the host galaxy. We have initiated an investigation into the physics of nearby active galaxies by studying the morphology, kinematics, excitation abundance structure, and radio structure of about 120 nearby targets. We present a few early results from this investigation.

• OSTI ID: 22494419
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1697, Issue 1; Conference: 5. IUPAP international conference on women in physics, Waterloo (Canada), 5-8 Aug 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ABUNDANCE
BLACK HOLES
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EXCITATION
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PLASMA
PROBES
SEYFERT GALAXIES
SYNCHROTRONS