Revealing a cool accretion disk in the ultraluminous X-ray source M81 X-9 (Holmberg IX X-1): Evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 607, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 931-938

  Miller, J M ^a   Fabian, A C ^b   Miller, M C ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Relativity; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142769873     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383563     Document Type: Article

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