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X-ray Emission from Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies and Low Radiative-efficiency Accretion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

T. Di Matteo  and
S. W. Allen
T. Di Matteo
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, U.S.A.
S. W. Allen
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CBS OHA, U.K.

Abstract

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We discuss the detection of hard, power-law emission components in the X-ray spectra of six nearby, giant elliptical galaxies observed with the ASCA satellite and its implication for low-radiative efficiency accretion models around the central, supermassive black holes.

Type
Part II: Posters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms , 2000 , pp. 387 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

References

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