Probable intermediate-mass black holes in NGC 4559: XMM-Newton spectral and timing constraints

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-51

  Cropper, Mark ^a   Soria, Roberto ^a   Mushotzky, Richard F ^b   Wu, Kinwah ^a   Markwardt, Craig B ^b,c   Pakull, Manfred ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Galaxies: individual: NGC 4559; X rays: galaxies; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; STARS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 4559; INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES; POWER-LAW; SPECTRAL CONSTRAINTS; TIMING CONSTRAINTS; X-RAY:STARS; X-RAYS: GALAXIES; XMM-NEWTON;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

EID: 1842484210     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07480.x     Document Type: Article

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