Accretion disks and the lyman continuum polarization of QSOS

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 496, Issue 2 PART I, 1998, Pages 743-751

  Shields, Gregory A ^a   Wobus, Lance ^a   Husfeld, Dirk ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: Active; Polarization; Quasars: General

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243348439     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/305416     Document Type: Article

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