Jets from X-ray binaries
Abstract
Relativistic outflows, or `Jets', represent one of the most obvious, important and yet poorly-explained phenomena associated with accreting relativistic objects, including X-ray binaries. In the past decade we have observed highly relativistic flows, the resultant in-situ particle acceleration in the ISM, and begun to unearth the subtleties of the accretion -- outflow coupling on timescales from seconds to years. In this chapter I shall attempt, subjectively, to describe the state of research into jets from X-ray binaries as it stands at the beginning of 2003.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0303339,
title = {Jets from X-ray binaries},
author = {Rob Fender},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0303339},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
45-page review. Updated and expanded since first version; this is `final'. Some figures are reduced quality. To appear in 'Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources', eds. W.H.G. Lewin and M. van der Klis, Cambridge University Press