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From: zadeh@northwestern.edu
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\begin{document}

\title{The Origin of the Galactic Center Nonthermal Radio Filaments: Young
  Stellar Clusters}

\author{F. Yusef-Zadeh} 


\affil{Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208}

Email contact: zadeh@northwestern.edu

\begin{abstract}
The unusual class of magnetized nonthermal radio filaments (NTF), threads
and streaks with their unique physical characteristics are found only
within the inner couple of degrees of the Galactic center.  Also, a number
of young, mass-losing and rare stellar clusters are recognized to lie in
the Galactic center region.  The latter characteristic of the Galactic
center region is used to explain the origin of the nonthermal radio
filaments.  We consider a mechanism in which the collective winds of
massive WR and OB stars within a dense stellar environment produce shock
waves that can accelerate particles to relativistic energies.  This
mechanism is an extension of a model originally proposed by Rosner and
Bodo (1996), who suggested that energetic nonthermal particles are
produced in a terminal shock of mass-losing stars.  The large-scale
distribution of the magnetic field in the context of this model is argued
to have neither poloidal geometry nor pervasive throughout the Galactic
center region.
                                                                                
\end{abstract}

{Accepted by ApJ}

%astro-ph/0308008

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