Deriving the quasar luminosity function from accretion-disk instabilities

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 482, Issue 1 PART II, 1997, Pages

  Siemiginowska, Aneta ^a   Elvis, Martin ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion: accretion disks; Cosmology: theory; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744433474     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310673     Document Type: Article

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