The importance of discovering A 3 : 2 twin-peak quasi-perio in an ultraluminous X-ray source, or how to solve the puzzle of intermediate-mass black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 609, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Abramowicz, Marek A ^a,f   Kluźniak, Włoek ^b,c,f   McClintock, Jeffrey E ^d   Remillard, Ronald A ^e  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics quasars: general; Relativity; X rays: galaxies; X rays: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242742995     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422810     Document Type: Article

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