Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei. I. First results from a new reverberation mapping campaign

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 782, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Du, Pu ^a   Hu, Chen ^a   Lu, Kai Xing ^b   Wang, Fang ^c   Qiu, Jie ^a   Li, Yan Rong ^a   Bai, Jin Ming ^c   Kaspi, Shai ^d   Netzer, Hagai ^d   Wang, Jian Min ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies: active

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893145611     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/782/1/45     Document Type: Article

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