Magnetic driving of relativistic outflows in active galactic nuclei. I. Interpretation of parsec-scale accelerations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 605, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 656-661

  Vlahakis, Nektarios ^a   Königl, Arieh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual (NGC 6251); Galaxies: jets; ISM: jets and outflows; MHD; Quasars: individual (3C 345)

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542585522     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382670     Document Type: Article

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