Constraining the accretion rate onto Sagittarius A * using linear polarization

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 545, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 842-846

  Quataert, Eliot ^a   Gruzinov, Andrei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxy: center; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034694990     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317845     Document Type: Article

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