Investigation of the obscuring circumnuclear torus in the active galaxy Mrk231

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 821-823

  Klöckner, Hans Rainer ^a,b   Baan, Willem A ^b   Garrett, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; KINEMATICS; LIGHT EMISSION; NUCLEAR ENERGY;

CIRCUMNUCLEAR TORUS; NUCLEAR EMISSION;

GALAXIES;

HYDROXYL GROUP;

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; KINEMATICS; MODEL; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0242600553     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01381     Document Type: Article

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