A jet is a jet, big or small: connections between microquasars and AGN
Sebastian Heinz (MIT) - FRIDAY 3pm 544, Dec. 3 at 12:00 noon
Jets and outflows are generic features of accreting objects. Spectral
and morphological similarities in relativistic jets from black holes of
stellar mass and from AGNs suggest a fundamental similarity of the jets
that stems from the scale invariant nature of strong gravity. Detailed
comparison of the nuclear properties of a sample of accreting black
holes reveals a strong correlation between the radio emission, the
X-ray luminosity, and the black hole mass that can be understood in
terms of simple, very generic scaling relations. Using these relations,
we can constrain the X-ray emission mechanism, jet speed, and jet power
of the sources under consideration.
The seminar will be held in 544 Campbell Hall.
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