The tidal disruption of giant stars and their contribution to the flaring supermassive black hole population

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 757, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  MacLeod, Morgan ^a   Guillochon, James ^a   Ramirez Ruiz, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies: nuclei; hydrodynamics; methods: numerical; stars: evolution; stars: kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866414288     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/134     Document Type: Article

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