Particle accelerators in the hot spots of radio galaxy 3C 445, imaged with the VLT

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5591, 2002, Pages 193-195

  Prieto, M Almudena ^a   Brunetti, Gianfranco ^a   Mack, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRONS; JETS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

RADIO GALAXY;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

ASTRONOMY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

EID: 0037020187     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075990     Document Type: Article

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24. K.-H.M. was supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Commission. G.B. acknowledges partial financial support from the Italian MIUR (Ministero dell'lstruzione dell'Universitá e della Ricerca) under grant Cofin01-02-8773, We would like to thank the staff at the VLT Paranal Observatory for their professional service. We are grateful to M. Bondi, I. M. Gioia, M. J. M. Marchā, K. Meisenheimer, M.-A. Pérez-Torres, G. Setti, and S. R. Spangler for their valuable comments on the manuscript.