Gamma-ray emission from advection-dominated accretion flows around black holes: Application to the Galactic center

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 486, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 268-275

  Mahadevan, Rohan ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a   Krolik, Julian ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxy: center; Gamma rays: theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744449934     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304499     Document Type: Article

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