Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6961, 2003, Pages 934-937

  Genzel, R ^a,b   Schodel R ^a   Ott, T ^a   Eckart, A ^c   Alexander, T ^d   Lacombe, F ^e   Rouan, D ^e   Aschenbach, B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; ORBITS;

BLACK HOLE; ORBITING GAS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; ELECTRON; GAS; INFRARED RADIATION; MODULATION; NEAR INFRARED FLARE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; ROTATION;

SAGITTARIUS;

EID: 0242659324     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02065     Document Type: Article

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