Possible evidence for truncated thin disks in the low-luminosity active galactic nuclei M81 and NGC 4579

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 525, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages

  Quataert, Eliot ^a,c   Di Matteo, Tiziana ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Ho, Luis C ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: individual (M81, NGC 4579)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033544216     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312353     Document Type: Article

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