Unresolved X-ray background: Clues on galactic nuclear activity at z > 6

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 761-768

  Salvaterra, Ruben ^a   Haardt, Francesco ^a,c   Volonteri, Marta ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: evolution; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINANCE; SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS;

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; MASSIVE BLACK HOLES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED; NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES; QUASARS:GENERAL; X-RAY BACKGROUND;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 33846158096     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11195.x     Document Type: Article

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