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State-of-the-art AGN SEDs for photoionization models: BLR predictions confront the observations
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- Award ID(s):
- 1816537
- PAR ID:
- 10165765
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume:
- 494
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 0035-8711
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 5917 to 5922
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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