Orbital motion in the radio galaxy 3C 66B: Evidence for a supermassive black hole binary

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5623, 2003, Pages 1263-1265

  Sudou, Hiroshi ^a,d   Iguchi, Satoru ^b   Murata, Yasuhiro ^c   Taniguchi, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; INTERFEROMETERS; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

BLACK HOLES; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

ORBITS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITY; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 0038136895     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082817     Document Type: Article

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