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

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2006

Authors

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

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

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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Keywords: Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: individual (NGC 821, NGC 3377, NGC 4486B, NGC 4564, NGC 4697, NGC 5845); Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: structure; X-rays: galaxies

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31011

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ANU Research Publications

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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10.1086/499934

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2037-12-31

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