Nuclear disks of gas and dust in early-type galaxies and the hunt for massive black holes: Hubble Space Telescope observations of NGC 6251

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 515, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 583-602

  Ferrarese, Laura ^a   Ford, Holland C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: individual (NGC 6251); Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033462892     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307046     Document Type: Article

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