X-ray observations of black-hole accretion disks

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2862-2866

  Ebisawa, Ken ^a   Kawaguchi, Toshihiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Black hole accretion disk; X ray observations

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA ACQUISITION; LIGHT SOURCES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ACCRETION DISKS; LUMINOSITY VARIATIONS; SOLAR MASS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 33751299734     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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