Constraining radiatively inefficient accretion flows with polarization

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 663, Issue 1 II, 2007, Pages

  Ballantyne, D R ^a   Özel, Feryal ^a   Psaltis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxy: Center; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Radiation mechanisms: thermal

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547215756     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519951     Document Type: Article

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