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The Jet Paradigm

From Microquasars to Quasars

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Tomaso Belloni

    1. Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, INAF, Merate, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 794)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Microquasars: Summary and Outlook

    • I.F. Mirabel
    Pages 1-15

  3. X-Ray Emission from Black-Hole Binaries

    • M. Gilfanov
    Pages 17-51

  4. States and Transitions in Black Hole Binaries

    • T.M. Belloni
    Pages 53-84

  5. Radio Emission and Jets from Microquasars

    • E. Gallo
    Pages 85-113

  6. ‘Disc–Jet’ Coupling in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei

    • R. Fender
    Pages 115-142

  7. From Multiwavelength to Mass Scaling: Accretion and Ejection in Microquasars and AGN

    • S. Markoff
    Pages 143-172

  8. Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei

    • A.P. Marschern
    Pages 173-201

  9. X-Ray Variability of AGN and Relationship to Galactic Black Hole Binary Systems

    • I. McHardy
    Pages 203-232

  10. Theory of Magnetically Powered Jets

    • H.C. Spruit
    Pages 233-263

  11. General Relativistic MHD Jets

    • J.H. Krolik, J.F. Hawley
    Pages 265-287

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 1-3
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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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  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, INAF, Merate, Italy

    Tomaso Belloni

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