Ambartsumyan's concept of active galactic nuclei

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Jan 2010

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Astrophysics, Volume 53, Issue 1, pp.1-17

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Extragalactic Astronomy, Ambartsumyan’S Concept Of Active Galactic Nuclei, Seyfert Galaxies, Uv-Excess Galaxies

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As Victor Ambartsumyan, himself, noted, the concept of active galactic nuclei occupies a special place among his scientific ideas. It was proposed more than half a century ago and was recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as revolutionary, on a copernican scale. However, by no means all of its propositions were accepted at once by large parts of the astronomy community. Nevertheless, as the American astrophysicist A. R. Sandage has written, “today, not one astronomer would deny the mystery surrounding the nuclei of galaxies or that the first to recognize the rich reward held in this treasury was Viktor Ambartsumian.” The purpose of this article is to acquaint the reader with the major stages in the formation and development of the concept of active galactic nuclei and with some of the work on this topic done at the Byurakan and other astrophysical observatories throughout the world.

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