Extremely fast acceleration of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7162, 2007, Pages 576-578

  Uchiyama, Yasunobu ^a   Aharonian, Felix A ^b,c   Tanaka, Takaaki ^a,d   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a   Maeda, Yoshitomo ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; ELECTRON; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; X-RAY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYNCHROTRON; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 34948879712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06210     Document Type: Article

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