Astro2020 Science White Paper: Compact Stellar Jets
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-04-29 v1
Abstract
This paper outlines the importance of understanding jets from compact binaries for the problem of understanding the broader phenomenology of jet production. Because X-ray binaries are nearby and bright, have well-measured system parameters, and vary by factors of on year timescales, they provide a unique opportunity to understand how various aspects of the jet physics change in response to changes in the accretion flow, giving the possibility of looking for trends within individual systems and testing their universality with other systems, rather than trying to interpret large samples of objects on a statistical basis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.11845,
title = {Astro2020 Science White Paper: Compact Stellar Jets},
author = {Thomas J. Maccarone and Elena Gallo and Sebastian Heinz and James C. A. Miller-Jones and Piergiorgio Casella and Stephen Eikenberry and Poshak Gandhi and Richard M. Plotkin and Gregory R. Sivakoff and James F. Steiner and Alexandra J. Tetarenko and John A. Tomsick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11845},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
white paper submitted to Astro2020 decadal survey