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- Basic phenomenology of AGN
- Central engine and black hole physics
- Thin and thick accretions disks
- Continuum emission mechanisms
- Extra-nuclear emission line regions
- Jets
- Outflows and winds
- Properties of host galaxies
- Onset of activity and fuelling of black holes
- Anisotropic appearance and unification of disparate AGN mechanisms
- Dust emission
- Luminosity function and evolution of AGNs
This outline is representative only, and is likely to change from instructor to instructor and from year to year.
Recent instructors
- Ken Chambers — 2002 (offered as ASTR 734)
- Lennox Cowie — 2010