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The energetic role of massive stars in the AGN phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Timothy M. Heckman
Timothy M. Heckman*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

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I review the evidence for a possible connection between AGN and starbursts and assess the energetic role of massive stars in the AGN phenomenon. My particular focus is on UV spectroscopy, since this is the energetically dominant spectral regime for the hot high-mass stars that power starbursts, and contains a wealth of spectral features for diagnosing the presence of such stars. I also review the non-stellar sources of UV line and continuum emission in AGN, including scattered or reprocessed light from the ‘central engine’. Spectroscopy directly shows that hot stars provide most of the UV light in about half of the brightest type 2 Seyfert nuclei and UV-bright LINERS. The population of hot stars in these AGN is typically heavily extinct and reddened by dust with A(1600Å) ≃ 2–4 mag. The implied intrinsic UV luminosities of the starburst range from 108 to 109 L⊙ in the LINERS to 1010 to 1011 L⊙ in the type 2 Seyferts. Massive stars play an energetically significant role in many AGN, but the causal or evolution connection between starbursts and AGN is unclear. I also consider the energetics of massive stars and accreting supermassive black holes from a global, cosmic perspective. Recent inventories in the local universe of the cumulative effect of nuclear burning (metal production) and of AGN-fueling (compact dark objects in galactic nuclei) imply that accretion onto supermassive black holes may have produced as much radiant energy as massive stars over the history of the universe.

Type
Part 6. Starbursts in normal and active galaxies: their effects on the ISM and on chemical evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 703 - 715
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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