The jet paradigm
Subtitle: from microquasars to quasars
By: T. Belloni (ed.).
Series: The lecture notes in physics -- 794; Lecture notes in physics -- 794.
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9783540769361; 9783540769378
Subjects: Quasars; Astrophysical jets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Microquasars: summary and outlook; title: 2. X-ray emission from black-hole binaries; title: 3. State and transitions in black-hole binaries; title: Radio emission and jets from microquasars; title: 5. 'Disc-jet' coupling in black hole x-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei; title: 6. From multiwavelength to mass scaling: accretion and ejection in microquasars and AGN; title: 7. Jets in active galactic nuclei; title: 8. X-ray variability of AGN and relationship to galactic black hole binary systems; title: 9. Theory of magnetically powered jets; title: 10. General relativistic MHD jets.