Irradiation models for ULXs and fits to optical data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 376, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1407-1423

  Copperwheat, Christopher ^a   Cropper, Mark ^a   Soria, Roberto ^a,b   Wu, Kinwah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; X rays: galaxies; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATION; LIGHT EMISSION; STARS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE MASS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL-; SOURCE SYSTEMS; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAY:STARS; X-RAYS: GALAXIES;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 34147122136     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11551.x     Document Type: Article

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