A Multiband Approach to AGN: Radioscopy & Radio Astronomy
Abstract
Only in the radio-loud population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) does the production, collimation, and acceleration of powerful relativistic jets take place. We introduce here a concept of combined VLBI- and X-ray spectroscopic observations of sources with relativistic, broad iron lines. This approach has enormous potential to yield deep insights into the accretion/jet-production process in AGN. Better knowledge of the milliarcsecond-resolution radio structure of the nuclear radio cores in so-called ``radio-quiet'' broad-iron-line Seyfert galaxies is essential for future combined radio/X-ray studies of the different modes of radio-jet production in accreting black hole systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411534,
title = {A Multiband Approach to AGN: Radioscopy & Radio Astronomy},
author = {M. Kadler and E. Ros and J. Kerp and A. L. Roy and A. P. Marscher and J. A. Zensus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411534},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, needes mem.cls, Proceedings contribution to the workshop "Multiband approach to AGN" held in Bonn (September 30 - October 2, 2004)