Revelations in our own backyard: Chandra's unique Galactic Center discoveries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7196-7201

  Markoff, Sera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galactic stellar population; Galactic X ray transients; Low luminosity active galactic nuclei

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; DYNAMICS; GAS DIFFUSION; IMAGING; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952141926     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914070107     Document Type: Review

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