Resolving the Bondi accretion flow toward the supermassive black hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 736, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wong, Ka Wah ^a   Irwin, Jimmy A ^a   Yukita, Mihoko ^a   Million, Evan T ^a   Mathews, William G ^b   Bregman, Joel N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: individual (NGC 3115); galaxies: nuclei; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960918084     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/L23     Document Type: Article

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