Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in active galactic nuclei

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 26-32

  Schopper, R ^a   Lesch, H ^a   Birk, G T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei; MHD

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009283835     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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