On the origin of the hard X-ray background

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 305, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Di Matteo, T ^a   Esin, A ^a,b   Fabian, A C ^c   Narayan, R ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Theoretical Astrophysics   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei; X rays: galaxies; X rays: general

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; ADVECTION-DOMINATED ACCRETION FLOWS; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXIES:NUCLEI; HARD X RAY; HARD X-RAY SOURCES; SPECTRA'S; X-RAY BACKGROUND; X-RAY GENERAL; X-RAYS: GALAXIES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0040917441     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02541.x     Document Type: Article

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