Joint AAO/ATNF Colloquium.

Wednesday, 13 February 2002- 3:30pm ATNF Lecture Theatre

X-Ray Storms in Active Galaxies

Hagai Netzer

Tel Aviv University

New Chandra and XMM-Newton observations provide the first firm evidence for strong nuclear winds (X-ray storm) of highly ionized gas in active galactic nuclei (AGN). High resolution X-ray spectroscopy, not available until 1999, will be shown and discussed. The new data supply information about the location and physical properties of this gas and provide new ways to probe the AGN starburst connection and the AGN unification schemes.