Black-Hole Transients : From QPOs to Relativistic Jets
Astrophysics
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
Due to the impressive amount of new data provided by the RXTE satellite in the past decade, our knowledge of the phenomenology of accretion onto black holes has increased considerably. In particular, it has been possible to schematize the outburst evolution of transient systems on the basis of their spectral and timing properties, and link them to the ejection of relativistic jets as observed in the radio. Here, I present this scheme, concentrating on the properties of the quasi-periodic oscillations observed in the light curves and on the link with jet ejection.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507556,
title = {Black-Hole Transients : From QPOs to Relativistic Jets},
author = {Tomaso Belloni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507556},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of COSPAR Colloquium "Spectra & Timing of Compact X-ray Binaries," January 17-20, 2005, Mumbai, India [new version, references corrected]