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2015MNRAS.453L..46K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 453, L46-L47 (2015/October-2)

AGN flickering and chaotic accretion.

KING A. and NIXON C.

Abstract (from CDS):

Observational arguments suggest that the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have a characteristic time-scale ∼ 105 yr. We show that this is the time-scale expected in the chaotic accretion picture of black hole feeding, because of the effect of self-gravity in limiting the mass of any accretion-disc feeding event.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - black hole physics - galaxies: active - quasars: supermassive black holes - galaxies: Seyfert - X-rays: galaxies

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