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Interpretation of Extragalactic Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Michael L. Norman
Michael L. Norman*
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory P.O.Box 1663, Los Alamos, N.M. 87544 andInstitute for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 87131

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The subject of this paper is the interpretation of extragalactic radio jets. In this paper I will focus on what we have learned about the nature of extragalactic jets on the basis of model calculations. By model I mean any set of calculations, whether analytic, semi-analytic or numerical, which, when carried through from their respective assumptions to their internally self-consistent conclusions, help place constraints on the physical parameters and processes in the jets and their associated radio lobes. In this field, a visual inspection of a modern high-resolution radio interferometric observation (see review by PERLEY in these proceedings) often leads to statements like “that looks just like such and such in Landau and Lifschitz; I betcha that’s what’s going on!” This I call a speculation, or, at best, a hypothesis. I am addressing here the step beyond hypothesis, namely modeling, which is necessary to confront not only the object in question, but more importantly, the hypothesis itself. In the end, we will remember only the hypotheses.

Type
8. Stellar and Extragalactic Jets
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 89: Radiation Hydrodynamics in Stars and Compacts Objects , 1986 , pp. 425 - 437
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1986

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