Seyfert Galaxies and BeppoSAX
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In this review, rather than present and discuss in detail the first results obtained by BeppoSAX (see Boella et al. 1997 for an overall description of the mission) on Seyfert galaxies (these results are presented in detail elsewhere in this volume, see in particular the contributions by Perola, Comastri and Salvati), I will discuss current ideas on the X–ray emission of both type 1 and 2 objects, outlining topics in which BeppoSAX is expected to give, and is actually giving, important contributions. While results in the soft and medium X–rays will be soon extended and improved by missions like AXAF and XMM, in hard X–rays BeppoSAX results are likely to be rather lasting, and actually unrivalled for many years. This is the reason why, in this contribution, I will discuss more in details issues relative to the highest energy part of the spectrum, and more in general topics in which the unique broad band of BeppoSAX is particularly well suited.
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