Giant magnetized outflows from the centre of the Milky Way

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7430, 2013, Pages 66-69

  Carretti, Ettore ^a   Crocker, Roland M ^b,c   Staveley Smith, Lister ^d   Haverkorn, Marijke ^e,f   Purcell, Cormac ^g   Gaensler, B M ^g   Bernardi, Gianni ^h   Kesteven, Michael J ^a   Poppi, Sergio ⁱ  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

ⁱ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

AMBLEMA PLICATA;

EID: 84871775161     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11734     Document Type: Article

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