Testing the binary black hole paradigm through the Fe Kα line profile: Application to 3C 273

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 596, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages

  Torres, Diego F ^a   Romero, Gustavo E ^b   Barcons, Xavier ^c   Lu, Youjun ^d,e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMÍA   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Line: profiles; Quasars: individual (3C 273)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142230034     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379108     Document Type: Article

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