A first close look at the Balmer-edge behaviour of the quasar big blue bump

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 345, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 253-260

  Kishimoto, Makoto ^a   Antonucci, Robert ^b   Blaes, Omer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Accretion discs; Galaxies: active; Polarization; Quasars: general; Radiation mechanisms: general

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

ACCRETION; ACCRETION DISCS; EDGE FEATURES; EMISSION LINES; FLUX SPECTRUM; GALAXIES ACTIVE; QUASARS:GENERAL; RADIATION MECHANISMS: GENERAL; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0142135999     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06934.x     Document Type: Article

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