An intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster G1: Improved significance from New Keck and Hubble Space Telescope observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 634, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 1093-1102

  Gebhardt, Karl ^a   Rich, R M ^b   Luis, C H O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (M31); Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general; Globular clusters: individual (Mayall II = G1)

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244455016     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497023     Document Type: Article

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