Nonthermal electrons in radiatively inefficient accretion flow models of sagittarius A

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 598, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 301-312

  Yuan, Feng ^a   Quataert, Eliot ^b   Narayan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion,Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: active; Galaxy: center; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Radiation mechanisms: thermal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347527199     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378716     Document Type: Article

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