Constraints on active galactic nucleus accretion disc viscosity derived from continuum variability

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-73

  Starling, Rhaana L C ^a,b   Siemiginowska, Aneta ^b   Uttley, Phil ^c   Soria, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Quasars: general; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; STARS; TIME MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; DISK MODEL; LOCAL INSTABILITY; OPTICAL-; QUASARS:GENERAL; THERMAL; TIME-SCALES; VISCOSITY PARAMETERS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0347600771     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07167.x     Document Type: Article

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