Peering through the dust: Evidence for a supermassive black hole at the nucleus of Centaurus A from VLT infrared spectroscopy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 549, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 915-937

  Marconi, Alessandro ^a   Capetti, Alessandro ^b   Axon, David J ^c   Koekemoer, Anton ^d   Macchetto, Duccio ^d   Schreier, Ethan J ^d  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: elliptical; Galaxies: individual (Centaurus A); Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035835790     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319445     Document Type: Article

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