The minor-merger-driven nuclear activity in Seyfert galaxies: A step toward the simple unified formation mechanism of active galactic nuclei in the local universe

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 524, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 65-70

  Taniguchi, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: Seyfert; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033543922     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307814     Document Type: Article

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