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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2012, Article ID 138380, 15 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/138380
Research Article

AGN Triggering in the Infall Regions of Distant X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at

R. Fassbender,1 R. Šuhada,2 and A. Nastasi1

1Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Postfach 1312, Giessenbachstraße, 85741 Garching, Germany
2Department of Physics, Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich, Scheinerstraße 1, 81679 Munich, Germany

Received 14 November 2011; Accepted 20 March 2012

Academic Editor: Angela Bongiorno

Copyright © 2012 R. Fassbender et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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