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    Quasars at All Cosmic Epochs by Ascensión del Olmo

    Published 2018
    Subjects: “…spectral energy distribution of quasars…”
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    Astronomy 2e by Fraknoi, Andrew, Morrison, David, Wolff, Sidney C.

    Published 2022
    Table of Contents: “…The Sun: A Nuclear Powerhouse -- 16.1 Sources of Sunshine: Thermal and Gravitational Energy -- 16.2 Mass, Energy, and the Theory of Relativity -- 16.3 The Solar Interior: Theory -- 16.4 The Solar Interior: Observations -- Chapter 17 Analyzing Starlight -- 17.1 The Brightness of Stars -- 17.2 Colors of Stars -- 17.3 The Spectra of Stars (and Brown Dwarfs) -- 17.4 Using Spectra to Measure Stellar Radius, Composition, and Motion -- Chapter 18 The Stars: A Celestial Census -- 18.1 A Stellar Census -- 18.2 Measuring Stellar Masses -- 18.3 Diameters of Stars -- 18.4 The H–R Diagram -- Chapter 19 Celestial Distances -- 19.1 Fundamental Units of Distance -- 19.2 Surveying the Stars -- 19.3 Variable Stars: One Key to Cosmic Distances -- 19.4 The H–R Diagram and Cosmic Distances -- Chapter 20 Between the Stars: Gas and Dust in Space -- 20.1 The Interstellar Medium -- 20.2 Interstellar Gas -- 20.3 Cosmic Dust -- 20.4 Cosmic Rays -- 20.5 The Life Cycle of Cosmic Material -- 20.6 Interstellar Matter around the Sun -- Chapter 21 The Birth of Stars and the Discovery of Planets outside the Solar System -- 21.1 Star Formation -- 21.2 The H–R Diagram and the Study of Stellar Evolution -- 21.3 Evidence That Planets Form around Other Stars -- 21.4 Planets beyond the Solar System: Search and Discovery -- 21.5 Exoplanets Everywhere: What We Are Learning -- 21.6 New Perspectives on Planet Formation -- Chapter 22 Stars from Adolescence to Old Age -- 22.1 Evolution from the Main Sequence to Red Giants -- 22.2 Star Clusters -- 22.3 Checking Out the Theory -- 22.4 Further Evolution of Stars -- 22.5 The Evolution of More Massive Stars -- Chapter 23 The Death of Stars -- 23.1 The Death of Low-Mass Stars -- 23.2 Evolution of Massive Stars: An Explosive Finish -- 23.3 Supernova Observations -- 23.4 Pulsars and the Discovery of Neutron Stars -- 23.5 The Evolution of Binary Star Systems -- 23.6 The Mystery of the Gamma-Ray Bursts -- Chapter 24 Black Holes and Curved Spacetime -- 24.1 Introducing General Relativity -- 24.2 Spacetime and Gravity -- 24.3 Tests of General Relativity -- 24.4 Time in General Relativity -- 24.5 Black Holes -- 24.6 Evidence for Black Holes -- 24.7 Gravitational Wave Astronomy -- Chapter 25 The Milky Way Galaxy -- 25.1 The Architecture of the Galaxy -- 25.2 Spiral Structure -- 25.3 The Mass of the Galaxy -- 25.4 The Center of the Galaxy -- 25.5 Stellar Populations in the Galaxy -- 25.6 The Formation of the Galaxy -- Chapter 26 Galaxies -- 26.1 The Discovery of Galaxies -- 26.2 Types of Galaxies -- 26.3 Properties of Galaxies -- 26.4 The Extragalactic Distance Scale -- 26.5 The Expanding Universe -- Chapter 27 Active Galaxies, Quasars, and Supermassive Black Holes -- 27.1 Quasars -- 27.2 Supermassive Black Holes: What Quasars Really Are -- 27.3 Quasars as Probes of Evolution in the Universe -- Chapter 28 The Evolution and Distribution of Galaxies -- 28.1 Observations of Distant Galaxies -- 28.2 Galaxy Mergers and Active Galactic Nuclei -- 28.3 The Distribution of Galaxies in Space -- 28.4 The Challenge of Dark Matter -- 28.5 The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Structure in the Universe -- Chapter 29 The Big Bang -- 29.1 The Age of the Universe -- 29.2 A Model of the Universe -- 29.3 The Beginning of the Universe -- 29.4 The Cosmic Microwave Background -- 29.5 What Is the Universe Really Made Of? …”
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