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Unified Models: Religion and Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Robert Antonucci
Robert Antonucci*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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The Unified Model states that the classification of individual AGN is a function of orientation, and that orientation effects are key to understanding the different classes. In its most extreme form, it states that every AGN has a featureless continuum (FC) source and a broad line region (BLR), both enclosed in an opaque torus. The torus is perpendicular to the associated radio structure axis. For the powerful radio sources (in Elliptical galaxy hosts), the jets undergo bulk relativistic motion, giving rise to phenomena such as superluminal motion associated with the blazar class. All strong radio sources have diffuse double radio lobes, although in the blazars one is sometimes seen projected onto the other. To take this to the extreme, we can suppose that all opaque tori are made of dust and have the same opening angle and that the radio jets are all narrow and have the same bulk-motion Γ factor.

Type
Unified Schemes and Relations by Other Types of Objects
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 301 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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