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Self-organized Criticality with Data from MCG-6-30-15?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R. Sivron
Affiliation:
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, U.S.A.
E. Goralski
Affiliation:
GVSU, Allendale, MI 49404, U.S.A.
A. LeRoux
Affiliation:
MSU, Bozeman, MT 59717, U.S.A.
S. Tsuruta
Affiliation:
MSU, Bozeman, MT 59717, U.S.A.
H. Kunieda
Affiliation:
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Abstract

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We explain why compact sources are nonlinear and investigate the nonlinearity of MCG-6-30-15. We argue that the central engine of this Seyfert nucleus is compact and show that it exhibits a specific nonlinear behavior similar to that of a system in a critically self-organized state.

Type
Part II: Posters
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

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