The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys

Significant progress has been made in the last few years on understanding how supermassive black holes form and grow. In this paper, we begin by reviewing the spectral signatures of active galactic nuclei (AGN) ranging from radio to hard X-ray wavelengths. We then describe the most commonly used met...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ezequiel Treister, C. Megan Urry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in Astronomy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/516193