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55. Magnetic fields in radio sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G. R. Burbidge
G. R. Burbidge*
Affiliation:
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Recent work has suggested very strongly that most non-thermal radio sources emit by the synchrotron mechanism—the radiation of relativistic electrons and positrons in magnetic fields. In this paper a summary of calculations of the total energy in particles and magnetic field in a number of radio sources has been given. Magnetic fields estimated in this way for the Crab, Cassiopeia A, our Galaxy, M 87, NGC 5128, NGC 1316 and Cygnus A are tabulated.

Type
Part VII: Additional Contributions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 6: Electromagnetic Phenomena in Cosmical Physics , 1958 , pp. 529 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958 

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