AGN: The High-Energy Status before INTEGRAL

Abstract

Much progress in the knowledge of the high-energy emission (>50 keV) from Active Galactic Nuclei has been made during the last decade, predominately by the experiments aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. After the end of the CGRO mission and prior to the upcoming INTEGRAL mission the current status of high-energy emission properties and scenarios is summarized for different AGN classes. In addition, prospects for INTEGRAL observations of AGN are given.

8 pages including 16 figures; invited paper, to appear in the proceedings of the 4th INTEGRAL Workshop 'Exploring the Gamma-Ray Universe', Alicante/Spain, September 2000