The obscuration by dust of most of the growth of supermassive black holes

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7051, 2005, Pages 666-669

  Martínez Sansigre, Alejo ^a   Rawlings, Steve ^a   Lacy, Mark ^b   Fadda, Dario ^b   Marleau, Francine R ^b   Simpson, Chris ^c   Willott, Chris J ^d   Jarvis, Matt J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; COSMIC RAYS; GROWTH KINETICS; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIO WAVES; SIZE DETERMINATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BLACK HOLES; OPTICAL WAVELENGTHS; QUASARS; X-RAY BACKGROUND;

ASTRONOMY;

DUST;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; X RAY;

EID: 23644459348     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03829     Document Type: Article

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