Photon-photon absorption of very high energy gamma rays from microquasars: Application to LS 5039

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 634, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages

  Böttcher, Markus ^a   Dermer, Charles D ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: theory; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Stars: winds, outflows; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858541520     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498615     Document Type: Article

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