Searching for narrow emission lines in X-ray spectra: Computation and methods

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 688, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 807-825

  Park, Taeyoung ^a   Van Dyk, David A ^b   Siemiginowska, Aneta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: statistical; Quasars: emission lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849125148     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591631     Document Type: Article

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