Discovery of a giant and luminous X-ray outburst from the optically inactive galaxy pair RX J1242.6-1119

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Komossa, Stefanie ^a   Greiner, Jochen ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual: RX J1242.6 1119; Galaxies: nuclei; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001916774     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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