Jets from Galactic binaries
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2012-04-17 v1
Abstract
I present a brief review of the properties of jets from X-ray binaries, highlighting the disk-jet connection, in which there are strong correlations between X-ray and radio power for black holes and for neutron star in low/hard spectral states, and reduced emission in soft states. I discuss how some of the new "deviant" black hole systems which follow the relation normally found for neutron stars might fit into such a picture. I close by highlighting a few open questions which might be best addressed with soft gamma-ray observations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.3154,
title = {Jets from Galactic binaries},
author = {Thomas J. Maccarone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3154},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, accepted to Proceedings of Science, invited review at "The Extreme and Variable High Energy Sky" conference, September 19-23, 2011