The magnetic nature of disk accretion onto black holes

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7096, 2006, Pages 953-955

  Miller, Jon M ^a   Raymond, John ^b   Fabian, Andy ^c   Steeghs, Danny ^b   Homan, Jeroen ^d   Reynolds, Chris ^e   Van Der Klis, Michiel ^f   Wijnands, Rudy ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GALAXIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DISK ACCRETION; INTERNAL VISCOSITY; NEUTRON STARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ACCRETION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASTROPHYSICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY; WIND; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BLACK HOLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DISK ACCRETION; ENERGY; FORCE; GAS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WIND; X RAY;

EID: 33745544621     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04912     Document Type: Article

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