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Quasi Stellar Objects and Active Galactic Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. Barbieri
C. Barbieri*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy

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The role of the Schmidt telescopes in the discovery of the Quasi Stellar Objects and of the Active Galactic Nuclei, and in the understanding of their properties was and continues to be of the greatest importance. Thousands of Radio-Sources have been quickly associated to their optical counterparts thanks to the worldwide availability of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates and charts and more recently of the films of the ESO B Survey. Other thousands of QSOs and AGNs devoid of radio emission are found by the large Schmidts nowaday in operation. This wealth of data give fundamental cosmological knowledge and insight in the physical processes occuring in these objects. I'll concentrate in this Review on two specific topics, namely on the discovery techniques and on the study of the optical variability. To both subjects, the 67/92 cm Schmidt telescope here at Asiago has made significant contributions. The first topic is treated in several excellent papers, such as the one by M. Smith (1978) and the one by P. Veron (1983); the material presented in the second part is largely new. In the following, I'll use rather loosely the terms QSOs and AGNs to designate a variety of objects including Quasars (those QSOs in catalogs of Radio-Sources), high-redshift compact galaxies with emission lines, BL LACset similia.

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Research Article
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 78: Astronomy with Schmidt-type telescopes , 1984 , pp. 443 - 456
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Copyright © Reidel 1984

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