5. SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
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Initial debate concerning the physical nature of quasars is summarized in
Burbidge, G., & Burbidge, E. M.,
Quasi-Stellar Objects (San Francisco: Freeman) (1967)
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The three key historical papers that originated the BH hypothesis are
Salpeter, E. E.
Astrophys. J. 140, 796 (1964)
Zel'dovich, Ya. B., & Novikov, I. D.
Sov. Phys. Dokl. 158, 811
(1964)
Lynden-Bell, D.
Nature 223, 690 (1969)
- The argument for ``gravity power'' was further developed in
Lynden-Bell, D.
Physica Scripta 17, 185 (1978)
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Textbook style discussions of AGN physics can be found in
Active Galactic Nuclei, Saas-Fee Course 20,
ed. T. J.-L. Courvoisier & M. Mayor (Berlin: Springer) (1990)
Peterson, B. M.,
An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (1997)
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The BH paradigm is covered at a more technical level in the following review
articles:
Rees, M. J.
Ann. Rev. Astr. Astrophys. 22, 471 (1984)
Begelman, M. C., Blandford, R. D., & Rees, M. J.
Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, 255 (1984)
Blandford, R. D., in
Active Galactic Nuclei, Saas-Fee Course
20, ed. T. J.-L. Courvoisier & M. Mayor (Berlin: Springer), 161 (1990)
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The search for BHs is reviewed in
Kormendy, J., & Richstone, D.
Ann. Rev. Astr. Astrophys. 33, 581 (1995)
Richstone, D., et al.
Nature 395, A14 (1998)
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The starburst theory for the origin of AGNs has been developed by
Terlevich, R., Tenorio-Tagle, G., Franco, J., & Melnick, J.
M.N.R.A.S. 255, 713 (1992)
Terlevich, R., Tenorio-Tagle, G., Rozyczka, M., Franco, J., & Melnick, J.
M.N.R.A.S. 272, 198 (1995)
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The following conference proceedings explicitly focus on the observations
and interpretation of the more ``garden variety'' low-luminosity AGNs:
Eracleous, M., Koratkar, A. P., Leitherer, C., & Ho, L. C., eds.,
The Physics of LINERs in View of Recent
Observations
(San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific) (1996)
Schmitt, H. R., Kinney, A. L., & Ho, L. C., eds.,
The AGN/Normal Galaxy
Connection (Advances in Space Research, 23 (5-6))
(Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.) (1999)
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Readers interested in a full treatment of the techniques of
reverberation mapping should consult
Blandford, R. D., & McKee, C. F.
Astrophys. J. 255, 419 (1982)
Peterson, B. M.
Pub. Astr. Soc. Pac. 105, 247 (1993)
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Explicit application of reverberation mapping results to derive masses
of AGNs was done by
Ho, L. C., in
Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the
Universe, ed. S. K. Chakrabarti (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 157 (1998)
Laor, A.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 505, L83 (1998)
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Mass determinations using optical emission-line rotation curves include
Harms, R. J., et al.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 435, L35 (1994)
Macchetto, F., Marconi, A., Axon, D. J., Capetti, A., Sparks, W. B., &
Crane, P. Astrophys. J. 489, 579 (1997)
Bower, G. A., et al.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 492, L111 (1998)
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The water maser observations of NGC 4258 are described in
Watson, W. D., & Wallin, B. K.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 432, L35 (1994)
Miyoshi, M., Moran, J., Herrnstein, J., Greenhill, L., Nakai, N., Diamond, P.,
& Inoue, M.
Nature 373, 127 (1995)
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Arguments against compact dark star clusters in NGC 4258 and the Galaxy are
presented in
Maoz, E.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 494, L181 (1998)
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These papers discuss the derivation of MBH and
BH by
fitting spectra with accretion disk models:
Wandel, A., & Petrosian, V.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 329, L11 (1988)
Laor, A. M.N.R.A.S. 246, 369 (1990)
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Attempts to derive masses using X-ray variability have been made by
Wandel, A., & Mushotzky, R. F.
Astrophys. J. Lett. 306, L61 (1986)
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The prediction, discovery, and routine detection of broad Fe
K emission
lines are described, respectively, in
Fabian, A. C., Rees, M. J., Stella, L., & White, N. E.
M.N.R.A.S. 238, 729 (1989)
Tanaka, Y., et al.
Nature 375, 659 (1995)
Nandra, K., George, I. M., Mushotzky, R. F., Turner, T. J., & Yaqoob, T.
Astrophys. J. 477, 602 (1997)
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Prospects for X-ray reverberation mapping are foreseen in
Stella, L.
Nature 344, 747 (1990)
Reynolds, C. S., Young, A. J., Begelman, M. C., & Fabian, A. C.
Astrophys. J. 514, 164 (1999)
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Advection-dominated accretion is reviewed in
Narayan, R., Mahadevan, R., & Quataert, E., in
The Theory of Black Hole
Accretion Discs, ed. M. A. Abramowicz, G. Björnsson, &
J. E. Pringle
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 148 (1998)
Mineshige, S., & Manmoto, T.,
Advances in Space Research,
23 (5-6), 1065 (1999)
Blandford, R. D., & Begelman, M. C.
M.N.R.A.S. 303, L1 (1999)
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The case for and against the binary black hole interpretation of radio
galaxies with double-peaked emission lines are made, respectively, by
Gaskell, C. M., in
Jets from Stars and Galaxies, ed. W. Kundt
(Berlin: Springer), 165 (1996)
Eracleous, M., Halpern, J. P., Gilbert, A. M., Newman, J. A. & Filippenko,
A. V.
Astrophys. J. 490, 216 (1997)