Optical Discovery of probable stellar tidal disruption flares

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 741, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Van Velzen, Sjoert ^a,b,c   Farrar, Glennys R ^a,d   Gezari, Suvi ^e   Morrell, Nidia ^f   Zaritsky, Dennis ^g   Östman, Linda ^h   Smith, Mathew ⁱ   Gelfand, Joseph ^j   Drake, Andrew J ^k  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^j NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

black hole physics; galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155147163     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/73     Document Type: Article

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