Active galactic nuclei as scaled-up Galactic black holes

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7120, 2006, Pages 730-732

  McHardy, I M ^a   Koerding, E ^a   Knigge, C ^a   Uttley, P ^b   Fender, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; OPTICAL METHOD; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COSMIC RADIATION; DENSITY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; IONIZATION; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; X RAY;

EID: 33845658996     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05389     Document Type: Article

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