Discovery of a luminous, variable, off-center source in the nucleus of M82 with the Chandra high-resolution camera

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 547, Issue 1 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Matsumoto, H ^a   Tsuru, T G ^b   Koyama, K ^b,c   Awaki, H ^d   Canizares, C R ^a   Kawai, N ^e   Matsushita, S ^f   Kawabe, R ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual (M82); Galaxies: starburst; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035915895     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318878     Document Type: Article

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