Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2001
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Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #205, held 15-18 August 2000 at
Physics
Scientific paper
Several radio jets associated with X-ray binary stars or soft X-ray transients in our galaxy have been discovered in recent years. In some cases apparent superluminal motion of features in the jets has been found, leading to the objects being called microquasars. There are many similarities with the more distant extragalactic objects not the least of which is the belief that nearly all of the objects are black-hole candidates. Both types of jets are produced via processes in the inner part of an accretion disk surrounding the black-hole, which may also extract spin energy from the black-hole. We may expect to see similar properties of the jets in quasars and microquasars (though on very different size scales) if the production mechanisms are similar. In this paper we compare the structure and physical properties of microquasar jets with those typically found in radio loud galaxies and quasars, with the aim of finding similarities and differences which may shed light on the jet production process.
de La Force C.
Spencer Ralph
Stirling Alastair
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