Accretion and Nuclear Activity of Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes. I. X-Ray Study

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Soria, Roberto
Fabbiano, G
Graham, Alister
Baldi, A
Elvis, M
Jerjen, Helmut
Pellegrini, S
Siemiginowska, A

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IOP Publishing

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We have studied the nuclear activity in a sample of six quiescent early-type galaxies, with new Chandra data and archival HST optical images. Their nuclear sources have X-ray luminosities ∼ 10 38-10 39ergs s -1 (L X/L Edd ∼ 10 -8 to 10 -7) and colors

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31