The AGN Help Page

This is the place to find information, websites and downloadable files to make your search for AGN information easier. The image used as a background on this page is of the 0.9 meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. It is the telescope used to take many of the images and spectra in the RBSE lexicon of research projects. The guy to the left is Travis Rector, an astronomer who works for the National Radio Astronomical Observatories. He is currently working at the VLA (Very Large Array) Telescope in Socorro, New Mexico. If you have questions concerning AGN that you absolutely CANNOT answer, questions that totally stump me and are at your wit's end, we can contact Travis via email. He will get back to you typically within a day or two.

AGN Sites
(I would start with the sites in red)

  • Active Galactic Nuclei - introduction to x-ray information of AGN
  • Active Galaxies and Quasars - another site from Imagine the Universe
  • ADC Quick Reference Page to AGNs
  • Bill Keel - Introducing AGN - EXCELLENT information here!!!
  • Cambridge X-ray Astronomy Group
  • FAQs about Quasars - from Ask an Astronomer
  • Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei
  • (Another) Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei - X-ray Astrophysics Group of LHEA
  • Jillian's Guide to Black Holes
  • NASA ASCA Active Galactic Nuclei - check the gallery for images, spectra and light curves
  • NASA HEASARC page on AGN
  • Quasars and Active Galaxies
  • Radio loud galaxies - information about reading spectra from these galaxies.
 

Spectroscopy Links

Starburst Sites

  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - picture of a nearby starburst galaxy. There are websites connected to links on this page you may find helpful.
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory
  • Goddard Space Flight Center - information from NASA concerning starbursts, quasars and other black hole phenomena.
  • Imagine the Universe - NASA site mirrored off Goddard.
  • Observations of Starbursts and other AGN
  • Starburst Galaxies and AGN

Travis Rector's home page