Jets from Stars and Galactic Nuclei

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Jets from stars and burning disks

   • Wolfgang Kundt

   Pages 1-18

3. Black hole, jet, and disk: The universal engine

   • Heino Falcke

   Pages 19-34

4. Simple sums on burning discs

   • P. A. G. Scheuer

   Pages 35-40

5. Coherent emission and intraday variability of active galactic nuclei

   • Harald Lesch

   Pages 41-56

6. Particle acceleration in extended radio sources—A critical review

   • Klaus Meisenheimer

   Pages 57-64

7. Plasma acceleration and jet formation by a magnetized rotator

   • S. V. Bogovalov

   Pages 65-73

8. The astrophysical plasma gun

   • John Contopoulos

   Pages 74-81

9. Magnetized accretion-ejection structures

   • Jonathan Ferreira

   Pages 82-91

10. Jet formation in astrophysical converging flows

    • V. V. Gvaramadze

    Pages 92-103

11. Observational properties of jets from young stars

    • Jochen Eislöffel

    Pages 104-117

12. Near-infrared imaging in H2 of molecular (CO) outflows from young stars

    • Jochen Eislöffel, Christopher J. Davis

    Pages 118-121

13. The jets in SS 433

    • René C. Vermeulen

    Pages 122-139

14. The SS 433 system

    • Wolfgang Kundt

    Pages 140-144

15. Southern hemisphere VLBI observations of GRO J1655-40

    • S. J. Tingay, D. L. Jauncey, R. A. Preston, J. E. Reynolds, D. L. Meier, D. W. Murphy et al.

    Pages 145-148

16. Jets in planetary nebulae

    • Garrelt Mellema

    Pages 149-164

17. Supermassive binaries and extragalactic jets

    • C. Martin Gaskell

    Pages 165-195

18. Accretion and jet power

    • Beverley J. Wills

    Pages 196-202

19. Jets and QSO spectra

    • Beverley J. Wills, M. S. Brotherton

    Pages 203-212

20. An interpretation of radio-loud-radio-quiet QSO differences

    • Beverley J. Wills

    Pages 213-218

Jets are ubiquitous in the Universe, but ill-understood. Conservative books base their interpretations on focused stellar winds, ejected "bullets", black-hole central engines, and in-situ upgrading of electron energies via shocks. This volume, however, attempts a uniform interpretation of the bipolar-flow family, involving extremely relativistic pair plasma as the jet substance, and rotating magnets (possibly burning disks) as the central engines. Among the discussed sources are SS 433, YSO jets, planetary nebulae, our galactic center, and the class of extragalactic QSOs, both radio-loud and radio-quiet.

• Accretion
• Bipolar-Flow Family
• Bipolare Flüsse
• Brennende Scheben
• Burning Disks
• Jet formation
• Jets
• Planetarische Nebel
• Planetary Nebulae
• Strahlbildung
• active galactic nuclei
• black hole
• planet
• Überschallstrahlen

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