A new direct method for measuring the hubble constant from reverberating accretion discs in active galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 302, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Collier, Stefan ^a,d   Horne, Keith ^a   Wanders, Ignaz ^c   Peterson, Bradley M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bus 401   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; STARS; TIME DELAY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; ACTIVE - GALAXIES; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXIES:NUCLEI; HUBBLE CONSTANT; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; TIME-DELAYS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0037796631     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02250.x     Document Type: Article

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