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The Magnetodynamic Model of Quasars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

L.M. Ozernoj
L.M. Ozernoj*
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow

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Although the energy problem is one of the main difficulties of the cosmological interpretation of quasar red-shifts, there is no need to go beyond conventional physical laws in seeking an explanation. Various proposals have been made which differ in important details. I believe a suitable basis for a theory of quasars to be a supermassive plasma configuration, the matter of which is in mostly regular motion in a magnetic field. Such a magnetodynamic configuration I shall call a ‘magnetoid’. On this model a quasar is a galaxy with a dense non-stellar nucleus, the magnetoid, which gives rise to the characteristic non-thermal luminosity. The mass of the quasar is determined by its stars while the parameters of the magnetoid depend on the stage of evolution or conditions of formation in a similar way to those of radiogalaxies or active nuclei of galaxies.

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Joint Discussions
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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 1: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1967 , 1968 , pp. 384 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1968

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