Detection of the buried active galactic nucleus in NGC 6240 with the infrared spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 640, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 204-210

  Armus, L ^a   Bernard Salas, J ^b   Spoon, H W W ^b   Marshall, J A ^b   Charmandaris, V ^c,d   Higdon, S J U ^b   Desai, V ^e   Hao, L ^b   Teplitz, H I ^b   Devost, D ^b   Brandl, B R ^f   Soifer, B T ^a,e   Houck, J R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual (NGC 6240); Infrared: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645505001     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500040     Document Type: Article

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