Published May 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Galactic superluminal sources at different wavelengths

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Jet-like superluminal motion was observed in few types of the astrophysical systems. The early observations were made from radio galaxies with an active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboring accreting supermassive black hole. Similar type superluminal jets were detected in some of the hard X-ray transients with a stellar mass black hole. Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries with relativistic jets are reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of many of the phenomena seen in AGNs. The contemporaneous multiwavelength observations of the superluminal sources reveal the close connection between instabilities obviously originated in the accretion disk and manifested by their short timescale signature in X-rays, and the ejection of clouds of relativistic plasma observed as synchrotron emission at longer wavelengths. In this review I will attempt to summarise the observational status of the galactic relativistic jet sources and to stress out the importance of the multiwavelength observations

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S0920563200005168;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
85
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 263-270
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
6. topical seminar on neutrino and astroparticle physics
Dates
17-21 May 1999
Place
Pisa (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34062265
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; COSMIC X-RAY SOURCES; JETS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; REVIEWS
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENERGY RANGE; PHYSICS

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