The lack of broad-line regions in low accretion rate active galactic nuclei as evidence of their origin in the accretion disk

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 589, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages

  Nicastro, Fabrizio ^a   Martocchia, Andrea ^b,c   Matt, Giorgio ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Quasars: emission lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242556411     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375715     Document Type: Article

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