Supermassive black-hole growth over cosmic time: Active galaxy demography, physics, and ecology from Chandra surveys

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7184-7189

  Brandt, W N ^a   Alexander, D M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active galactic nuclei; Chandra X ray Observatory; Extragalactic surveys

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; IMAGING; LUMINANCE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPACE; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY;

EID: 77952232388     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914151107     Document Type: Review

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