Monte Carlo simulations of thermal-nonthermal radiation from a neutron star magnetospheric accretion shell

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 552, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 248-258

  Böttcher, Markus ^a   Liang, Edison P ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; MHD; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Radiation mechanisms: thermal; Relativity; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035324841     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320453     Document Type: Article

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