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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Active galaxies are amongst the most exciting and challenging phenomena in modern astrophysics. They are the most powerful objects we observe in the universe, encompassing a wide range of extreme physical conditions. This book reviews current research in this rapidly advancing field.

In Active Galactic Nuclei, the author discusses our place in the Universe, basic ideas about galaxies and cosmology, and the main classes of active galaxy. He reviews observational techniques, their development and limitations, and emphasises the crucial link between observation and theory. Emission processes occurring in active galaxies are described and models of active galactic nuclei, including the black hole power source, are explored. A unification scheme for classifying active galaxies is presented.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Table of Contents.

-Foreword.

-Author's Preface.

-Acknowledgements.

-List of Illustrations, Plates and Tables.

-1- The Universe - An Overview.

-2- Observational Progress.

-3- Observational Properties of Active Galaxies.

-4- Physical Processes in Astrophysics.

-5- Continuum Emission from Active Galaxies.

-6- The Central Kiloparsec.

-7- Black Holes, Accretion Disks and Evolution of AGNS.

-8- Radio Galaxies, Jets and Superluminal Motion.

-9- Unification.

-Appendix 1: Physical and Astronomical Constants.

-Index.

-Color Plate Section.

OUR REVIEW

Thanks to the important discoveries made by the space telescopes, the astronomers have already got the adequate tools to research the depths of active galaxies. By observing their nuclei it is easy to see that processes of fantastic proportions take place in them, although they are not fully understood as yet. Robson undertakes the task of updating us with respect to all that, while reminding us of the long way we still have to explore.

Ian Robson is a specialist in Physics and Astrophysics as well as a field researcher. He knows what he talks about as he has been studying active galaxies during the last twenty years. The result of his efforts, however, is not only aimed at his colleagues, but also at all amateur astronomers, and therefore his language has been adapted to the wide range of readers who could access his work. In it, those who are interested in this field will find information on quasars, jets, superluminal motion and black holes. The mathemathics and necessary formulae have been kept under minimums, and explanatory sections of the different physical phenomena have been included.