Ultra-high energy cosmic ray production in the polar cap regions of black hole magnetospheres

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Neronov, Ayu ^a,b   Semikoz, D V ^c,d   Tkachev, I I ^d  

^a ISDC   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BLACK HOLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS; EQUATORIAL PLANES; HEAVY NUCLEUS; HIGH ENERGY; IN-VACUUM; INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS; POLAR CAP; POLAR CAP REGION; POLOIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD; PROTON ACCELERATION; ROTATION AXIS; SOLAR MASS; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES; ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES;

ACCELERATION; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LUMINANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PROTONS; ROTATION; STARS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 67650473042     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/065015     Document Type: Article

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