Supermassive black holes in BL lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 5 1757, 2002, Pages 2352-2357

  Xie, G Z ^a,b,c   Liang, E W ^a,b,d   Xie, Z H ^e   Dai, B Z ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; Black hole physics; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141751637     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339974     Document Type: Article

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