Cosmological Mestel disks and the Rossby vortex instability: The origin of supermassive black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 598, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages

  Colgate, Stirling A ^a   Cen, Renyue ^b   Li, Hui ^a   Currier, Nathan ^a   Warren, Michael S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Hydrodynamics; Instabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347527271     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380426     Document Type: Article

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