%0 Generic %1 citeulike:13681928 %A King, Andrew %A Nixon, Chris %D 2015 %K imported %T AGN Flickering and Chaotic Accretion %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05960 %X Observational arguments suggest that the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have a characteristic timescale \$\sim 10^5\$ yr. We show that this is the timescale 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.

@misc{citeulike:13681928, abstract = {{Observational arguments suggest that the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have a characteristic timescale \$\sim 10^5\$ yr. We show that this is the timescale 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.}}, added-at = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {King, Andrew and Nixon, Chris}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/243ae484f4515eef71d86437faff8cefb/ericblackman}, citeulike-article-id = {13681928}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05960}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05960}, day = 21, eprint = {1507.05960}, interhash = {00cd70dd3d6b32c225d0b08816695d9d}, intrahash = {43ae484f4515eef71d86437faff8cefb}, keywords = {imported}, month = jul, posted-at = {2015-07-26 05:00:12}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, title = {{AGN Flickering and Chaotic Accretion}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05960}, year = 2015 }