A connection between star formation activity and cosmic rays in the starburst galaxy M82

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7274, 2009, Pages 770-772

  Acciari, V A ^a,b,c   Aliu, E ^b   Arlen, T ^c   Aune, T ^d   Bautista, M ^e   Beilicke, M ^f   Benbow, W ^a   Boltuch, D ^b   Bradbury, S M ^g   Buckley, J H ^f   Bugaev, V ^f   Byrum, K ^h   Cannon, A ⁱ   Celik, O ^c   Cesarini, A ^j   Chow, Y C ^c   Ciupik, L ^k   Cogan, P ^e   Colin, P ^l   Cui, W ^m   Dickherber, R ^f   Duke, C ⁿ   Fegan, S J ^c   Finley, J P ^m   Finnegan, G ^l   Fortin, P ^o   Fortson, L ^k   Furniss, A ^d   Galante, N ^a   Gall, D ^m   Gibbs, K ^a   Gillanders, G H ^j   Godambe, S ^l   Grube, J ⁱ   Guenette, R ^e   Gyuk, G ^k   Hanna, D ^e   Holder, J ^b   Horan, D ^p   Hui, C M ^l   Humensky, T B ^q   Imran, A ^r   Kaaret, P ^s   Karlsson, N ^k   Kertzman, M ^t   Kieda, D ^l   Kildea, J ^a   Konopelko, A ^u   Krawczynski, H ^f   Krennrich, F ^r   Lang, M J ^j   Lebohec, S ^l   Maier, G ^e   McArthur, S ^f   McCann, A ^e   McCutcheon, M ^e   Millis, J ^v   Moriarty, P ^w   Mukherjee, R ^o   Nagai, T ^r   Ong, R A ^c   Otte, A N ^d   Pandel, D ^s   Perkins, J S ^a   Pizlo, F ^m   Pohl, M ^r   Quinn, J ⁱ   Ragan, K ^e   Reyes, L C ^x   Reynolds, P T ^y   Roache, E ^a   Rose, H J ^g   Schroedter, M ^r   Sembroski, G H ^m   Smith, A W ^h   Steele, D ^k   Swordy, S P ^q   Theiling, M ^a   Thibadeau, S ^f   Varlotta, A ^m   Vassiliev, V V ^c   Vincent, S ^l   Wagner, R G ^h   Wakely, S P ^q   Ward, J E ⁱ   Weekes, T C ^a   Weinstein, A ^c   Weisgarber, T ^q   Williams, D A ^d   Wissel, S ^q   Wood, M ^c   Zitzer, B ^m   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^j NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^k ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^m PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^o Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^p LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^r IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^t DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v ANDERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^x UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^y Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

COSMIC RAY; DENSITY; DIAMETER; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALORIMETRY; COSMIC RADIATION; CROSS LINKING; DEATH; DENSITY GRADIENT; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; FIELD EMISSION; GAMMA RADIATION; GAS; LIFE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION ABSORPTION;

EID: 72049092037     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08557     Document Type: Article

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