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arXiv:astro-ph/0403618 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 26 Mar 2004]

Title:A panchromatic view of AGN

Authors:G. Risaliti (Arcetri, CfA), M. Elvis (CfA)
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Abstract: We review the continuum emission of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. After a brief historical introduction, we describe the main spectral properties of unobscured AGN, discussing the selection biases which prevent us from having a complete view of the AGN population in the universe, and trying to build an updated spectral energy distribution of optically selected quasars. In the second part of the review, we describe the spectral properties of obscured AGN. Finally, we discuss the main observational methods in the different wavelength bands for disentangling AGN and stellar emission, and the ability of these methods to find new (mainly obscured) AGN, a significant fraction of which are probably still missing in current surveys.
Comments: 37 pages, 15 figures. Review for "Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe", Ed. A. J. Barger, Kluwer Academic Publishers. For high resolution figures, see this http URL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0403618
  (or arXiv:astro-ph/0403618v1 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0403618
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2471-9_6

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From: Guido Risaliti [view email]
[v1] Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:15:47 UTC (618 KB)
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