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Models for Variability in AGNs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Martin J. Rees
Martin J. Rees*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy Madingley Road Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.

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In this talk I shall address three different processes relevant to continuum variability in AGNs. The first two refer to the physical conditions in the regions responsible for the non-thermal emission, and the implications of high brightness temperatures. The third is the distinctive type of flare that results when a star is tidally disrupted by a massive black hole; this process, which merits much further study, it likely to be specially important as a diagnostic of physical conditions in low-luminosity nearby nuclei.

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AGN Physics and Models
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 239 - 248
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Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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