Chandra observations of Galaxy Zoo mergers: Frequency of binary active nuclei in massive mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 753, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Teng, Stacy H ^a,b   Schawinski, Kevin ^c,d   Urry, C Megan ^c,d   Darg, Dan W ^e   Kaviraj, Sugata ^e   Oh, Kyuseok ^f   Bonning, Erin W ^c,d   Cardamone, Carolin N ^g   Keel, William C ^h   Lintott, Chris J ^e   Simmons, Brooke D ^d   Treister, Ezequiel ⁱ  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

galaxies: active; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863325189     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/165     Document Type: Article

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