On the two main classes of Active Galactic Nuclei [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08069


Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are traditionally divided empirically into two main classes: “radio-loud” and “radio-quiet” sources. These labels, which are more than fifty years old, are obsolete, misleading, and wrong. I argue that AGN should be classified based on a fundamentally physical rather than just an observational difference, namely the presence (or lack) of strong relativistic jets, and that we should use the terms “jetted” and “non-jetted” AGN instead.

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P. Padovani
Wed, 26 Jul 17
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Comments: Author’s version of Nature Astronomy Comment. 5 pages, 1 figure. See this https URL