Lecture Notes in Physics

From Microquasars to Quasars

By: Tomaso Belloni (Editor)

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The discovery of the ?rst case of superluminal radio jets in our galaxy in 1994 from the bright and peculiar X-ray source GRS 1915+105 has opened the way to a major shift in the direction of studies of stellar-mass accreting binaries. The past decade has seen an impressive increase in multi-wavelength studies. It is now known that all black hole binaries in our galaxy are radio sources and most likely their radio emission originates from a powerful jet. In addition to the spectacular events related to the ejection of superluminal jets, steady jets are known from many systems. Compared with their supermassive cousins, the nuclei of active galaxies, stellar-mass X-ray binaries have the advantage of varying on time scales accessible within a human life (sometimes even much shorter than a second). This has led to the ?rst detailed studies of the relation between accretion and ejection. It is even possible that, excluding their "soft" periods, the majority of the power in gal- tic sources lies in the jets and not in the accretion ?ows. This means that until a few years ago we were struggling with a physical problem, accretion onto compact objects, without considering one of the most important components of the system. Models that associate part of the high-energy emission and even the fast aperiodic variability to the jet itself are now being proposed and jets can no longer be ignored.

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Microquasars: Summary and Outlook	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Discovery of Microquasars	p. 2
Discovery of Superluminal Motions	p. 5
Disk-Jet Coupling in Microquasars	p. 6
Can We Prove the Existence of Black Holes?	p. 8
The Rotation of Black Holes	p. 9
Extragalactic Microquasars, Microblazars, and Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources	p. 9
Very Energetic ¿-Ray Emission from Compact Binaries	p. 10
Microquasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts	p. 11
Conclusions	p. 13
References	p. 14
X-Ray Emission from Black-Hole Binaries	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
Geometry and Spectral Components	p. 18
Spectral States and Geometry	p. 24
Reflected Emission	p. 25
Polarization of X-Ray Emission	p. 26
Variability	p. 27
Variability of the Reflected Emission	p. 36
R-¿ and Other Correlations	p. 39
Comparison with Neutron Star Binaries	p. 46
References	p. 50
Slates and Transitions in Black-Hole Binaries	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
The Fundamental Diagrams	p. 55
Aperiodic Variability	p. 57
The Time Evolution	p. 62
Definitions of Source States	p. 64
High-Frequency QPOs	p. 69
Other Sources	p. 70
Neutron-Star Binaries	p. 74
Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 75
Models and Interpretation	p. 77
Conclusions: How Many States?	p. 81
References	p. 82
Radio Emission and Jets from Microquasarss	p. 85
Radio Observations of Black Holes	p. 86
Coupling Accretion and Ejection in Black Holes	p. 87
Empirical Luminosity Correlations	p. 90
Jet-ISM Interaction	p. 91
Quiescence (to Eject or Not to Eject?)	p. 94
Neutron Stars	p. 97
Jet Power: The Mid-IR Leverage	p. 99
Jets, Advection, and Event Horizon	p. 102
White Dwarfs	p. 104
Jet Production, Collimation, Matter Content	p. 105
Future Prospects	p. 108
References	p. 111
'Disc-Jet' Coupling in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 115
Simple Physical Theory	p. 117
Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries	p. 120
Connections to Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 127
Using, Testing, and Exploring	p. 135
References	p. 140
From Multiwavelength to Mass Scaling: Accretion and Ejection in Microquasars and AGN	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Changing Paradigms	p. 144
The Driving Observations and Some Interpretation	p. 146
Modeling and Hysteresis	p. 155
Conclusions	p. 168
References	p. 169
Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 173
Introduction	p. 173
Observed Properties of Jets	p. 174
Physical Processes in AGN Jets	p. 183
Physical Description of Features Observed in Jets	p. 189
AGN Jets in Context	p. 198
References	p. 199
X-Ray Variability of AGN and Relationship to Galactic Black Hole Binary Systems	p. 203
Introduction	p. 204
AGN X-Ray Variability and AGN "States"	p. 204
Scaling Characteristic Timescales with Mass and Accretion Rate	p. 211
Relationship Between Nuclear Variability Properties and Larger Scale AGN Properties	p. 216
Origin of T_B	p. 218
Origin of the Variations	p. 218
Variability of Blazars	p. 224
X-Ray/Optical Variability	p. 226
Conclusions	p. 228
References	p. 230
Theory of Magnetically Powered Jets	p. 233
The Standard Magnetic Acceleration Model	p. 233
Length Scales	p. 237
Magnetic Jets	p. 238
Ordered Magnetic Fields	p. 246
Flow Acceleration by Magnetic Dissipation	p. 253
Jet Collimation	p. 255
The Launching Region	p. 259
References	p. 262
General Relativistic MHD Jets	p. 265
The Black Hole Connection	p. 265
General Relativity Review	p. 266
Candidate Energy Sources for Jets	p. 271
The Blandford-Znajek Mechanism	p. 273
What Simulations Can and Cannot Do	p. 276
Results	p. 280
Conclusions	p. 286
References	p. 286
Index	p. 289
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