Reconciling the spectrum of Sagittarius A* with a two-temperature plasma model

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 651-653

  Mahadevan, Rohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032514391     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29241     Document Type: Article

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