Chandra X-Ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sagittarius A and the Central Parsec of the Galaxy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 891-915

  Baganoff, F K ^a   Maeda, Y ^b   Morris, M ^c   Bautz, M W ^a   Brandt, W N ^d   Cui, W ^e   Doty, J P ^a   Feigelson, E D ^d   Garmire, G P ^d   Pravdo, S H ^f   Ricker, G R ^a   Townsley, L K ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: active; Galaxy: center; X rays: ISM; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043140946     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375145     Document Type: Article

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