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Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

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In the past two decades, high-amplitude electromagnetic outbursts have been detected from dormant galaxies and often attributed to the tidal disruption of a star by the central black hole1,2. X-ray emission from the Seyfert 2 galaxy GSN 069 (2MASX J01190869-3411305) at a redshift of z = 0.018 was first detected in July 2010 and implies an X-ray brightening by a factor of more than 240 over ROSAT observations performed 16 years earlier3,4. The emission has smoothly decayed over time since 2010...

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Peer review status:
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10.1038/s41586-019-1556-x

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Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Nature Research Publisher's website
Journal:
Nature Journal website
Volume:
573
Pages:
381-384
Publication date:
2019-09-11
Acceptance date:
2019-07-30
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EISSN:
1476-4687
ISSN:
0028-0836
Pmid:
31511696
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1054838
Local pid:
pubs:1054838
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2020-03-12

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