Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M 31

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7431, 2013, Pages 187-190

  Middleton, Matthew J ^a,b   Miller Jones, James C A ^c   Markoff, Sera ^b   Fender, Rob ^d   Henze, Martin ^e   Hurley Walker, Natasha ^c   Scaife, Anna M M ^d   Roberts, Timothy P ^a   Walton, Dominic ^f,g   Carpenter, John ^g   MacQuart, Jean Pierre ^c   Bower, Geoffrey C ^h   Gurwell, Mark ⁱ   Pietsch, Wolfgang ^e   Haberl, Frank ^e   Harris, Jonathan ^a   Daniel, Michael ^a   Miah, Junayd ^a   Done, Chris ^a   Morgan, John S ^c   Dickinson, Hugh ^j   Charles, Phil ^d,k   Burwitz, Vadim ^e   Valle, Massimo Della ^l,m   Freyberg, Michael ^e   Greiner, Jochen ^e   Hernanz, Margarita ⁿ   Hartmann, Dieter H ^o   Hatzidimitriou, Despina ^p   Riffeser, Arno ^q   Sala, Gloria ^r   Seitz, Stella ^q   Reig, Pablo ^s   Rau, Arne ^e   Orio, Marina ^t   Titterington, David ^u   Grainge, Keith ^u   more..

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^l INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^m ICRANET   (Italy)

ⁿ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^o CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^s INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^t INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; SOLAR SYSTEM; TIMESCALE; X-RAY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 84872166397     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11697     Document Type: Article

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