Three-layered atmospheric structure in accretion disks around stellar- mass black holes

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5456, 2000, Pages 1239-1241

  Zhang, S N ^a,b   Cui, Wei ^c   Chen, Wan ^d,e   Yao, Yangsen ^a   Zhang, Xiaoling ^a   Sun, Xuejun ^a   Wu, Xue Bing ^f   Xu, Haiguang ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; X RAY;

EID: 0034681569     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5456.1239     Document Type: Article

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