Hard radio spectra from reconnection regions in galactic nuclei

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 559, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 96-100

  Birk, G T ^a,b   Crusius Watzel A R ^a,b   Lesch, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Ctr Interdisciplinary Plasma Sci   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; BL Lacertae objects: general; Galaxies: nuclei; MHD; Radio continuum: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035922292     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322394     Document Type: Article

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