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The Jet Paradigm - From Microquasars to Quasars (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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The Jet Paradigm - From Microquasars to Quasars (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 794
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The discovery of the ?rst case of superluminal radio jets in our
galaxy in 1994 from the bright and peculiar X-ray source GRS
1915+105 has opened the way to a major shift in the direction of
studies of stellar-mass accreting binaries. The past decade has
seen an impressive increase in multi-wavelength studies. It is now
known that all black hole binaries in our galaxy are radio sources
and most likely their radio emission originates from a powerful
jet. In addition to the spectacular events related to the ejection
of superluminal jets, steady jets are known from many systems.
Compared with their supermassive cousins, the nuclei of active
galaxies, stellar-mass X-ray binaries have the advantage of varying
on time scales accessible within a human life (sometimes even much
shorter than a second). This has led to the ?rst detailed studies
of the relation between accretion and ejection. It is even possible
that, excluding their "soft" periods, the majority of the power in
gal- tic sources lies in the jets and not in the accretion ?ows.
This means that until a few years ago we were struggling with a
physical problem, accretion onto compact objects, without
considering one of the most important components of the system.
Models that associate part of the high-energy emission and even the
fast aperiodic variability to the jet itself are now being proposed
and jets can no longer be ignored.
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