Unification of radio-loud AGN: the X-ray perspective

232 Pages·2005·5.74 MB·English

by  Ferrero, Elisa

Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r extraterrestrische Physik
Unification of radio-loud AGN:
the X-ray perspective
Elisa Ferrero
August 2004

Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r extraterrestrische Physik
Unification of radio-loud AGN: the X-ray perspective
DISSERTATION
der Fakult¨at fu¨r Physik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at Mu¨nchen
zur Erlangung des Grades
Doktor der Naturwissenschaften
Dr. rer. nat.
vorgelegt von
ELISA FERRERO
aus Torino, Italien
Mu¨nchen, den 31. August 2004
1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Gregor Morfill
2. Gutachter: Dr. Hans B¨ohringer
Tag der mu¨ndlichen Pru¨fung: 14. Januar 2005

Aknowledgement
I would like to especially express my gratitude to Dr. Wolfgang Brinkmann who con-
stantly guided and supervised every phase of this work and who introduced me to astro-
physical research.
IamgratefultoDr. WolfgangVogesforperformingthecross-correlationswiththeROSAT
catalogs and I also wish to thank Dr. Hans B¨ohringer for providing his cluster catalogs
with useful X-ray data employed in this thesis. It is a pleasure to thank Dr. I. Papadakis
at the University of Crete who made possible the Skinakas observations described in Ap-
pendix A.
My PhD work was carried out in the framework of the graduate program of the Inter-
national Max-Planck Research School on Astrophysics to which I am therefore greatly
indebted. I am also grateful to Prof. Dr. G. Morfill who welcomed me in his theory group
and who provided financial support for the last months of my stay at MPE.
Finally, I would like to thank my family for the unconditional and uninterrupted support
they give me, each of them by his own means and in his own way. A final thank goes to
Mustapha who helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground.