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Super-Eddington Active Galctic Nuclei:Spectral Modeling and Black Hole Growth

  • Physics of Accretion Discs around Supermassive Black Holes
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Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context

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Among Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are supposed to have high accretion rates [1,2]. The gas accretion rate \(\dot{M}\) for those objects is expected to be larger than 10 LEdd/c2, where LEdd is the Eddington luminosity.

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  1. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    T. Kawaguchi

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Andrea Merloni Sergei Nayakshin Rashid A. Sunyaev

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Kawaguchi, T. Super-Eddington Active Galctic Nuclei:Spectral Modeling and Black Hole Growth. In: Merloni, A., Nayakshin, S., Sunyaev, R.A. (eds) Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11403913_57

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