Everything you wanted to know about galaxies and AGN
We’re starting a new section of Astrobites we’re calling “Glossaries”. The first of these glossaries, on Galaxies and AGN, is now available.
Computers search for quasars.
With the advent of large photometric surveys, Astronomers must often work through massive amounts of data. One solution to deal with these large numbers is to train computers to do the job. This paper discusses such a computer algorithm to select candidate quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), the bright nuclei of galaxies that each house a supermassive black hole.