Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution Export

@article{citeulike:4409581, abstract = {There are several key open questions as to the nature and origin of AGN including: 1) what initiates the active phase, 2) the duration of the active phase, and 3) the effect of the AGN on the host galaxy. Critical new insights to these can be achieved by probing the central regions of AGN with sub-mas angular resolution at UV/optical wavelengths. In particular, such observations would enable us to constrain the energetics of the AGN "feedback" mechanism, which is critical for understanding the role of AGN in galaxy formation and evolution. These observations can only be obtained by long-baseline interferometers or sparse aperture telescopes in space, since the aperture diameters required are in excess of 500 m - a regime in which monolithic or segmented designs are not and will not be feasible and because these observations require the detection of faint emission near the bright unresolved continuum source, which is impossible from the ground, even with adaptive optics. Two mission concepts which could provide these invaluable observations are NASA's Stellar Imager (SI; Carpenter et al. 2008 \&amp; <a href="http://hires.gsfc.nasa.gov/si/">this http URL</a>) interferometer and ESA's Luciola (Labeyrie 2008) sparse aperture hypertelescope.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Kraemer, Steve and Windhorst, Rogier and Carpenter, Kenneth G. and Crenshaw, Mike and Elvis, Martin and Karovska, Margarita}, citeulike-article-id = {4409581}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3875}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.3875}, day = {24}, eprint = {0904.3875}, keywords = {agn, astro2010, evolution, galaxies, interferometer, optical, review, technics, uv}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-10-26 21:59:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3875}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4409581 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4409581 N2 - There are several key open questions as to the nature and origin of AGN including: 1) what initiates the active phase, 2) the duration of the active phase, and 3) the effect of the AGN on the host galaxy. Critical new insights to these can be achieved by probing the central regions of AGN with sub-mas angular resolution at UV/optical wavelengths. In particular, such observations would enable us to constrain the energetics of the AGN "feedback" mechanism, which is critical for understanding the role of AGN in galaxy formation and evolution. These observations can only be obtained by long-baseline interferometers or sparse aperture telescopes in space, since the aperture diameters required are in excess of 500 m - a regime in which monolithic or segmented designs are not and will not be feasible and because these observations require the detection of faint emission near the bright unresolved continuum source, which is impossible from the ground, even with adaptive optics. Two mission concepts which could provide these invaluable observations are NASA's Stellar Imager (SI; Carpenter et al. 2008 &amp; <a href="http://hires.gsfc.nasa.gov/si/">this http URL</a>) interferometer and ESA's Luciola (Labeyrie 2008) sparse aperture hypertelescope. TI - Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution KW - agn KW - astro2010 KW - evolution KW - galaxies KW - interferometer KW - optical KW - review KW - technics KW - uv AU - Kraemer, Steve AU - Windhorst, Rogier AU - Carpenter, Kenneth AU - Crenshaw, Mike AU - Elvis, Martin AU - Karovska, Margarita PY - 2009/Apr/24/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3875 ER -