Jets, hotspots and lobes: What X-ray observations tell us about extragalactic radio sources

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1837, 2005, Pages 2711-2727

  Hardcastle, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quasars; Radio galaxies; X ray observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144514461     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1667     Document Type: Review

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