A possible relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6039, 2011, Pages 203-206

  Bloom, Joshua S ^a   Giannios, Dimitrios ^b   Metzger, Brian D ^b   Cenko, S Bradley ^a   Perley, Daniel A ^a   Butler, Nathaniel R ^a   Tanvir, Nial R ^c   Levan, Andrew J ^d   O'Brien, Paul T ^c   Strubbe, Linda E ^a   De Colle, Fabio ^e   Ramirez Ruiz, Enrico ^e   Lee, William H ^f   Nayakshin, Sergei ^c   Quataert, Eliot ^a   King, Andrew R ^c   Cucchiara, Antonino ^a,g   Guillochon, James ^e   Bower, Geoffrey C ^a   Fruchter, Andrew S ^h   Morgan, Adam N ^a   Van Der Horst, Alexander J ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY FIELD; LUMINESCENCE; NATURAL ANALOG; SPECTRUM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMPTON EFFECT; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; MASSIVE BLACK HOLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM; SYNCHROTRON; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIDE;

EID: 79960099775     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1207150     Document Type: Article

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