Central Activity in Galaxies

This extremely well balanced collection on active galactic nuclei astrophysics is intended as an introduction for graduate students and predocs to theoretical research and data analysis. It includes discussion of computing tools for image processing and multivariant statistical analysis.

Inhalt
The galactic centre.- Activity in galactic nuclei.- Observations and their implications for the inner parsec of AGN.- Infrared activity of galaxies.- Radio galaxies and jets.- Methods in astronomical image processing with special applications to the reduction of CCD data.- Multivariate methods for data analysis.- Multivariate methods for data analysis.- Multivariate methods for data analysis.