The megamaser cosmology project. III. Accurate masses of seven supermassive black holes in active galaxies with circumnuclear megamaser disks

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 727, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kuo, C Y ^a   Braatz, J A ^b   Condon, J J ^b   Impellizzeri, C M V ^b   Lo, K Y ^b   Zaw, I ^c,d   Schenker, M ^e   Henkel, C ^f   Reid, M J ^g   Greene, J E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: Seyfert

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891211821     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/20     Document Type: Article

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