Determining the spins of supermassive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei based on spectropolarimetric observations

Astronomy Reports

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 573-577

  Gnedin, Yu N ^a,b   Afanasiev, V L ^c   Borisov, N V ^c   Piotrovich, M Yu ^a   Natsvlishvili, T M ^a   Buliga, S D ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84865610084     PISSN: 10637729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1063772912080033     Document Type: Article

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