Calibrating the correlation between black hole mass and x-ray variability amplitude: X-ray only black hole mass estimates for active galactic nuclei and ultra-luminous x-ray sources

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 710, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Zhou, Xin Lin ^a,b   Zhang, Shuang Nan ^c,d   Wang, Ding Xiong ^e   Zhu, Ling ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349116973     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/710/1/16     Document Type: Article

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