"Observing details are given for 160 active galaxies, all of which are within the reach of amateur astronomers using telescopes. There are tips on observing galaxies and active galaxies using binoculars and telescopes, along with a guide to imaging galaxies with CCD cameras." "Galaxies in Turmoil can be used as a text for college courses including galaxies, active galaxies, quasars, deep-space objects, and large-scale astronomy, up to the final year of an astrophysics, physics, or science degree."--book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-262) and index.
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Contents
Preface -- 1. Classical galaxies -- 1.1. The great debate -- 1.1.1. How it all started -- Box 1.1 : Spectroscopy -- 1.1.2. Galaxies today -- 1.2. Galaxies to the forefront -- 1.2.1. Sorting out the galaxies -- 1.2.2. Galaxy formation -- 1.2.3. The Milky Way galaxy -- 1.3. The expanding universe -- 1.3.1. Hubble's law -- Box 1.2 : Doppler shifts -- 1.3.2. How old is the universe? -- Box 1.3 : The big bang -- Box 1.4 : Look-back time -- 2. Starburst galaxies -- 2.1. Recognizing starburst galaxies -- Box 2.1 : Star formation, young stars and spiral arms -- Box 2.2 : H II regions -- Box 2.3 : The classification of stars -- 2.2. Finding starburst galaxies -- Box 2.4 : Gravitational lensing -- 2.3. The origins of starburst galaxies -- Box 2.5 : Thermal radiation.
3. Active galaxies -- 3.1. What is an active galaxy? -- Box 3.1 : Non-thermal radiation -- Line emission and masers -- Free-free radiation -- Synchrotron radiation -- Inverse compton scattering -- 3.2. Types of AGNs -- 3.2.1. Preview of AGN models -- 3.2.2. Seyfert galaxies and relate objects -- Box 3.2 : Galaxy searches and surveys -- Box 3.3 : Polarization -- Box 3.4 : Light size -- Box 3.5 : Reverberation mapping -- 3.2.3. Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region galaxies (LINERs) -- 3.2.4. Quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and quasars -- Box 3.6 : Error boxes and identifications -- Box 3.7 : Halton Arp and non-cosmological redshifts -- 3.2.5. Blazars -- 3.2.6. Double-lobed radio galaxies -- 4. Jets and super luminal motion -- 4.1. When is a jet not a jet? -- 4.2. Jets in quasars and blazars -- Box 4.1 : Relativistic beaming and boosting -- 4.3. Jets in other types of AGN -- 4.4. Jets and radio lobes.
5. The unified model for AGNs -- 5.1. Black holes -- 5.1.1. What is a black hole? -- 5.1.2. Do super-massive black holes really exist? -- 5.1.3. How to generate energy using a black hole -- 5.2. The unified model -- 5.3. Puzzles, problems and prospects -- 6. Origin and evolution of AGNs -- 6.1. The Milky Way galaxy -- past, present and future -- 6.1.1. The Milky Way galaxy -- 6.1.2. On living inside an AGN -- 6.2. Origin and evolution of AGNs -- 6.2.1. Introduction -- 6.2.2. How do massive and super-massive black holes form? -- 6.2.3 Active galaxies -- past, present and future -- 7. Active galaxies through the telescope -- 7.1. Visual observations -- Box 7.1 : Dark adaptation, averted vision and other odd phenomena involved with eyesight -- 7.2. Imaging -- Appendix 1 : Bibliography -- Appendix 2 : Glossary of types of galaxies and AGNs -- Appendix 3 : Acronyms -- Appendix 4 : SI and other units -- Appendix 5 : Greek alphabet.