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Physical Ideas on Quasars and the Broad Line Region

                     Jordi Miralda-Escude (CfA)


The consequences of the presence of large numbers of stars
interacting with the accretion disk around an Active Galactic Nucleus
will be discussed. Physical constraints on the model of star tails,
where the clouds in the broad line region are created as matter is
pulled up from the disk by plunging stars, will be examined.