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Three modes of long wavelength flaring from GRS 1915+105: implications for jet formation

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

GRS 1915+105 has exhibited at least three modes of long-wavelength (infrared to radio) flares. Class A flares are the bright (1\sim 1 Jy) radio events whose apparent superluminal motion in many ways defines the microquasars. Class B flares have intermediate (50300\sim 50-300 mJy) flux densities in the IR and radio, and are associated with hard X-ray dipping behaviors. Class C flares are faint (550\sim 5-50 mJy) IR/radio events associated with soft X-ray dips. We discuss each of these classes and their inter-relationships.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011230,
  title  = {Three modes of long wavelength flaring from GRS 1915+105: implications for jet formation},
  author = {Stephen Eikenberry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011230},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in `Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources', Eds A. J.Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science, in press