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Planetary Nebulae and Seyfert Galaxies - Similarities and Differences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2017
Abstract
Knowledge gained in the study of planetary nebulae has been, and can be further, transferred to understanding active galactic nuclei. Photoionization is the main energy-input mechanism in the narrow-line regions, and probably although by no means certainly in the broad-line regions as well. There are many detailed differences because of the much “harder” input spectrum in active galactic nuclei, compared with planetary nebulae. A tentative model of the structure of the gas distribution in a Seyfert-galaxy nucleus is presented.
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- Section VI: Planetary Nebulae in a Galactic and Extragalactic Context
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