7 Accretion Disks and the Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xv
4. Guide for Readers xix
5. 1 What Are Active Galactic Nuclei? And Why Does Anyone Care? 1
6. 2 How to Find AGNs 22
7. 3 Evolution 42
8. 4 Global Energetics and Black Holes 68
9. 5 Black Hole Physics 90
10. 6 Spherical Accretion 120
11. 7 Accretion Disks and the Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum 135
12. 8 X-ray and γ-ray Emission 196
13. 9 Radio Emission and Jets 256
14. 10 Emission Lines 309
15. 11 Intrinsic Absorption and Outflows 399
16. 12 Anisotropic Appearance and Unification of Disparate AGN Varieties 424
17. 13 Properties of AGN Host Galaxies 464
18. 14 Onset and Fueling 494
19. 15 Where We Stand 530
20. Appendix A: Basic General Relativity 533
21. Appendix B: Basic Magnetohydrodynamics 537
22. Appendix C: Shocks and Other Discontinuities 542
23. Appendix D: Luminosity Functions and Other Population Statistics 552
24. Appendix E: The Tensor Virial Theorem 559
25. Appendix F: Kinematics in an Expanding Universe 566
26. References 573
27. Index 589