The Nuclei of Normal Galaxies: Lessons from the Galactic Center
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Genzel, R. (HerausgeberIn), Harris, A. I. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994
Schriftenreihe:NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences 445
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0752-5
Beschreibung:Our Galactic center's proximity allows astronomers to study physical processes within galactic nuclei at a level of detail that will never be possible in the more distant, but usually also more spectacular, extragalactic systems. Recent advances in instrumentation from the radio, through the submillimeter and infrared wavebands, and out to the X- and "'(-ray bands now allow observations of the Galactic Center over thirteen orders of magnitude in wavelength. Our knowledge about the central few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy has consequently increased vastly over the past decade. The same new instruments provide high resolution, high quality measurements of nearby "normal" galactic nuclei; that is, nuclei whose modest energy output is comparable to that of our own (and most other) galaxies. Theorists, spurred in part by the new observations, have been able to refine models of the energetics, dynamics, and evolution of the gas and stellar systems deep within galactic nuclei
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 499 p)
ISBN:9789401107525
9789401043236
ISSN:1389-2185
DOI:10.1007/978-94-011-0752-5