Low-Luminosity AGNs and Unification

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2002-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201065v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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To appear in "Issues in Unification of AGNs", edited by R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, & N.Nagar (ASP Conference Series, in press).

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More than one third of all nearby galaxies show indications of low-luminosity nuclear activity. These low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) are traditionally classified into a variety of categories depending on their forbidden-line ratios and on the presence or absence of broad-line emission. By analogy with Seyfert unification models, it is natural to ask whether the various LLAGN types are different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon, with observed differences being solely due to orientation and obscuration, or whether there are fundamentally distinct physical processes at work in different categories of LLAGNs. This contribution reviews some recent observations of LLAGNs in the context of AGN unification scenarios.

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