Radio monitoring of the tidal disruption event swift J164449.3+573451. I. jet energetics and the pristine parsec-scale environment of a supermassive black hole

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 748, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Berger, E ^a   Zauderer, A ^a   Pooley, G G ^b   Soderberg, A M ^a   Sari, R ^a,c   Brunthaler, A ^d,e   Bietenholz, M F ^f,g  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g HARTEBEESTHOEK RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

galaxies: nuclei; techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858054761     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/36     Document Type: Article

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