The Giant X-ray flare of NGC 5905: Tidal disruption of a star, a brown dwarf, or a planet?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 576, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 753-761

  Li, Li Xin ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Menou, Kristen ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012381958     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341890     Document Type: Article

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