Evidence for low black hole spin and physically motivated accretion models from millimeter-VLBI observations of sagittarius A*

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 735, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Broderick, Avery E ^a   Fish, Vincent L ^b   Doeleman, Sheperd S ^b   Loeb, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion accretion disks; black hole physics; Galaxy: center; submillimeter: general; techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959946772     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/2/110     Document Type: Article

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