Optical caustics in a Kerr spacetime and the origin X-ray variability in active galactic nuclie

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 421, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 46-68

  Rauch, Kevin P ^a   Blandford, Roger D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: Seyfert; Relativity; X rays: galaxies

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EID: 12044250186     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/173625     Document Type: Article

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