Timescales of soft X-ray variability and physical constraints in active galactic nuclei

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 733-740

  Bian, W ^a,b   Zhao, Y ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: Seyfert; Quasars: general; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141503296     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375414     Document Type: Article

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