Episodic random accretion and the cosmological evolution of supermassive black hole spins

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 697, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Jian Min ^a,b   Hu, Chen ^a   Li, Yan Rong ^a   Chen, Yan Mei ^a   King, Andrew R ^c   Marconi, Alessandro ^d   Ho, Luis C ^e   Yan, Chang Shuo ^a   Staubert, Rüdiger ^f   Zhang, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: evolution; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649239431     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/L141     Document Type: Article

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