Testing the radiatively inefficient accretion flow model for Sagittarius A* using the size measurements

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages

  Yuan, Feng ^a,b   Shen, Zhi Qiang ^a,b   Huang, Lei ^a,c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745290240     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504475     Document Type: Article

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