Quasars and AGNs
•What are they?
–Observational Properties
–Standard Model (accreting supermassive black hole)
•How are they found?
–A variety of survey types for a “zoo” of AGNs
–Unified Models: orientation, luminosity, radio properties
•AGN Physics
–Accretion Disks and SEDs
–Emission Lines and Photoionization
–Reverberation and Black Hole Mass
•Relationship with their host galaxies
–Host galaxies
–Mutual Evolution?
•GREAT compilation of review articles: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/active_galaxies.html
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