The nuclear disk of NGC 4261: Hubble space telescope images and ground-based spectra

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 460, Issue 1 PART I, 1996, Pages 214-224

  Jaffe, Walter ^a   Ford, Holland ^b,c   Ferrarese, Laura ^b,c   Van Den Bosch, Frank ^a   O'Connell, Robert W ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4261); Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344435696     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/176963     Document Type: Article

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