Testing radiatively inefficient accretion flow theory: An XMM-Newton observation of NGC 3998

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 606, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 173-184

  Ptak, A ^a   Terashima, Y ^b   Ho, L C ^c   Quataert, E ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: individual (NGC 3998); X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542579370     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382940     Document Type: Article

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