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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28471
Title: Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei and Microquasars
Authors: Romero, Gustavo E.
Boettcher, M.
Markoff, S.
TAVECCHIO, Fabrizio 
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 
Number: 207
Issue: 1-4
First Page: 5
Abstract: Collimated outflows (jets) appear to be a ubiquitous phenomenon associated with the accretion of material onto a compact object. Despite this ubiquity, many fundamental physics aspects of jets are still poorly understood and constrained. These include the mechanism of launching and accelerating jets, the connection between these processes and the nature of the accretion flow, and the role of magnetic fields; the physics responsible for the collimation of jets over tens of thousands to even millions of gravitational radii of the central accreting object; the matter content of jets; the location of the region(s) accelerating particles to TeV (possibly even PeV and EeV) energies (as evidenced by γ-ray emission observed from many jet sources) and the physical processes responsible for this particle acceleration; the radiative processes giving rise to the observed multi-wavelength emission; and the topology of magnetic fields and their role in the jet collimation and particle acceleration processes. This chapter reviews the main knowns and unknowns in our current understanding of relativistic jets, in the context of the main model ingredients for Galactic and extragalactic jet sources. It discusses aspects specific to active Galactic nuclei (especially blazars) and microquasars, and then presents a comparative discussion of similarities and differences between them.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28471
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11214-016-0328-2
ISSN: 0038-6308
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-016-0328-2
Bibcode ADS: 2017SSRv..207....5R
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