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Supercritical Accretion and its Possible Relation to Quasars and Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

David L. Meier
David L. Meier*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

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This paper reviews some of the properties of supercritical accretion which make it a possible model for the quasar optical central source and for producing the jet in radio sources. Some of the problems with this scenario can be remedied with alternative, but related, models.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 97: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1982 , pp. 263 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982 

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