Inspiralling supermassive black holes: A new signpost for galaxy mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 698, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 956-965

  Comerford, Julia M ^a   Gerke, Brian F ^b   Newman, Jeffrey A ^c   Davis, Marc ^a   Yan, Renbin ^d   Cooper, Michael C ^e   Faber, S M ^f   Koo, David C ^f   Coil, Alison L ^e,g   Rosario, D J ^f   Dutton, Aaron A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: Seyfert

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649114824     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/956     Document Type: Article

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