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The Electron-Positron Cauldron and the Formation of the Hard Radiation of Quasars and AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

N.S. Kardashev
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, MOSCOW 117810, USSR
I.D. Novikov
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, MOSCOW 117810, USSR
B.E. Stern
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, MOSCOW 117312, USSR

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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and quasars have unique physical parameters among all the objects in the Universe. Undoubtedly it is the uniqueness of the physical conditions in these systems that gives rise to the peculiar physical processes in them.

Type
IV. Prime Movers, Models and Mechanisms
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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