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Galaxy Interactions and the Stimulation of Nuclear Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Timothy M. Heckman
Timothy M. Heckman*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University and The Space Telescope Science Institute

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The idea that interactions between galaxies can lead to enhanced galactic activity has a long and noble lineage. Since the early days of Baade and Minkowski (1954), through the seminal paper of Toomre and Toomre (1977) with its “stoking the furnace” imagery, to the similarly colorful and influential “feeding the monster” paper of Gunn (1979), and the landmark work by Larson and Tinsley (1978), this idea was elaborated upon and generalized. The pace of development of this hypothesis has accelerated greatly on both the observational and theoretical fronts during the 1980’s, due in part to a growing perception that the AGN phenomenon could only be understood when the role of the environment in triggering or nurturing the activity was understood (cf. Balick and Heckman 1982). In recent years, the impact of the extragalactic IRAS database (on the observational side) and of the new generation of supercomputers and innovative software (on the numerical side) have led to an almost explosive growth in the number of papers written about this subject.

Type
V. Observations of Nuclear and Near-Nuclear Activity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 124: Paired and Interacting Galaxies , 1990 , pp. 359 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1990

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