Are particles in advection-dominated accretion flows thermal?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 490, Issue 2 PART I, 1997, Pages 605-618

  Mahadevan, Rohan ^a   Quataert, Eliot ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Radiation mechanisms: thermal; Radio continuum: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944454809     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304908     Document Type: Article

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