On the nature of the compact dark mass at the galactic center

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 638, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages

  Broderick, Avery E ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxy: center; Gravitational lensing; Infrared: general; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644545041     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500930     Document Type: Article

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