M 87 as a misaligned synchrotron-proton blazar
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M 87 as a misaligned Synchrotron - Proton Blazar
The giant radio galaxy M87 is usually classified as a Fanaroff-Riley class I source, suggesting that M87 is a mis-aligned BL Lac object. Its unresolved nuclear region emits strong non-thermal emission from radio to X-rays which has been interpreted as synchrotron radiation. In an earlier paper we predicted M87 as a source of detectable gamma ray emission in the context of the hadronic Synchrotr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034231