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Physics of Magnetized Accretion Disks in AGN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
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Field and Rogers (1993) proposed that the accretion disks in moderate - L AGN (≲ 1044 erg sec−1) are dominated by magnetic stress rather than gas or radiation pressure. A magnetic field parallel to the disk forms loops above and below it where reconnection accelerates electrons to relativistic energies. The nonthermal radiation observed is the synchrotron emission and inverse-Compton scattering by these electrons.
- Type
- Poster Contributions: Disks Structure and Emission
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 480 - 481
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1994