Bethe-Heitler cascades as a plausible origin of hard spectra in distant TeV blazars

Y. G. Zheng; C. Y. Yang; S. J. Kang

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526703

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Issue		A&A Volume 585, January 2016


Article Number		A8
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Extragalactic astronomy
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526703
Published online		08 December 2015

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