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Radio Emission from Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Schuyler D. Van Dyk
Affiliation:
Dept. Phys & Astr., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A.
Luis C. Ho
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Many nearby galaxies show optical evidence for low-luminosity AGNs that are far less luminous than classical Seyfert nuclei and QSOs. LINERs, the most common variety of such emission-line objects, comprise ~ 1/3 of nearby galaxies, and may serve as an important “missing link“ between normal and Seyfert galaxies. To shed light on the physical origin of LINERs, which remains controversial, we are conducting a high-resolution continuum survey of a representative sample of galaxies using the VLA to search for compact radio cores. We additionally discuss the dramatic radio variability in the LINER nucleus of M81.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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