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Astrophysical motivation for X-ray polarimetry

✍ Scribed by T. Kallman

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 183 KB
Volume: 34
Category: Article
ISSN: 0273-1177
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.03.059

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