A limit relation between black hole mass and Hβ width: Testing super-Eddington accretion in active galactic nuclei

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 6 1770, 2003, Pages 2859-2864

  Wang, Jian Min ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmology: miscellaneous; Galaxies: active

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142068931     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374948     Document Type: Article

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