Jets from Stars and Galactic Nuclei: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 3–7 July 1995

Wolfgang Kundt (auth.), Wolfgang Kundt (eds.)3540611363, 9783540611363

Jets are ubiquitous in the Universe, but ill-understood. Conservative books base their interpretations on focused stellar winds, ejected “bullets”, black-hole central engines, and in-situ upgrading of electron energies via shocks. This volume, however, attempts a uniform interpretation of the bipolar-flow family, involving extremely relativistic pair plasma as the jet substance, and rotating magnets (possibly burning disks) as the central engines. Among the discussed sources are SS 433, YSO jets, planetary nebulae, our galactic center, and the class of extragalactic QSOs, both radio-loud and radio-quiet.

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Table of contents :
Jets from stars and burning disks….Pages 1-18
Black hole, jet, and disk: The universal engine….Pages 19-34
Simple sums on burning discs….Pages 35-40
Coherent emission and intraday variability of active galactic nuclei….Pages 41-56
Particle acceleration in extended radio sources—A critical review….Pages 57-64
Plasma acceleration and jet formation by a magnetized rotator….Pages 65-73
The astrophysical plasma gun….Pages 74-81
Magnetized accretion-ejection structures….Pages 82-91
Jet formation in astrophysical converging flows….Pages 92-103
Observational properties of jets from young stars….Pages 104-117
Near-infrared imaging in H 2 of molecular (CO) outflows from young stars….Pages 118-121
The jets in SS 433….Pages 122-139
The SS 433 system….Pages 140-144
Southern hemisphere VLBI observations of GRO J1655-40….Pages 145-148
Jets in planetary nebulae….Pages 149-164
Supermassive binaries and extragalactic jets….Pages 165-195
Accretion and jet power….Pages 196-202
Jets and QSO spectra….Pages 203-212
An interpretation of radio-loud-radio-quiet QSO differences….Pages 213-218
Jets in gamma-bright AGN: Constraints on reprocessing mechanisms….Pages 219-229
Spectral evolution along the jest of M 87 and 3C 273….Pages 230-237
X-ray observations of Cen A….Pages 238-244
Superluminal sources….Pages 245-254
The sub-parsec-scale structure and evolution of the jet in centaurus A….Pages 255-259
The central engine in the galactic nucleus….Pages 260-264
Our galactic center….Pages 265-270
The missing X-rays in SGR A * : Evidence for a supermassive black hole in the galactic center….Pages 271-274
Numberical simulations of supersonic jets: The cocoon emission….Pages 275-283