• DOI:10.1086/133630
Corpus ID: 17198955

Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei

@article{Urry1995UnifiedSF,
  title={Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei},
  author={C. Urry and P. Padovani},
  journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific},
  year={1995},
  volume={107},
  pages={803}
}

• C. Urry, P. Padovani
• Published 1995
• Physics
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The appearance of active galactic nuclei (AGN) depends so strongly on orientation that our current classification schemes are dominated by random pointing directions instead of more interesting physical properties. Light from the centers of many AGN is obscrued by optically thick circumstellar matter, particularly at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths. In radio-loud AGN, bipolar jets emanating from the nucleus emit radio through gamma-ray light that is relativistically beamed along the jet… Expand

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