Characteristic QSO accretion disk temperatures from spectroscopic continuum variability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 87-95

  Pereyra, Nicolas A ^a,f   Vanden Berk, Daniel E ^a,d   Turnshek, David A ^a   Hillier, D John ^a   Wilhite, Brian C ^b   Kron, Richard G ^c   Schneider, Donald P ^d   Brinkmann, Jonathan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f Prism Computational Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Quasars: general; Ultraviolet: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745328125     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500919     Document Type: Article

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