A comparison of intermediate-mass black hole candidate ultraluminous X-ray sources and stellar-mass black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 614, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Miller, J M ^a   Fabian, A C ^b   Miller, M C ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: stellar content; Relativity; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044248602     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425316     Document Type: Article

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