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Synchrotron outbursts in Galactic and extragalactic jets, any difference?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Marc Türler  and
Elina J. Lindfors
Marc Türler
Affiliation:
INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, ch. d'Ecogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland email: [email protected] Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, ch. des Maillettes 51, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
Elina J. Lindfors
Affiliation:
Tuorla Observatory, Väisälä Institute of Space Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02540 Kylmälä, [email protected]
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Abstract

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We discuss differences and similarities between jets powered by super-massive black holes in quasars and by stellar-mass black holes in microquasars. The comparison is based on multi-wavelength radio-to-infrared observations of the two active galactic nuclei 3C 273 and 3C 279, as well as the two galactic binaries GRS 1915+105 and Cyg X-3. The physical properties of the jet are derived by fitting the parameters of a shock-in-jet model simultaneously to all available observations. We show that the variable jet emission of galactic sources is, at least during some epochs, very similar to that of extragalactic jets. As for quasars, their observed variability pattern can be well reproduced by the emission of a series of self-similar shock waves propagating down the jet and producing synchrotron outbursts. This suggests that the physical properties of relativistic jets is independent of the mass of the black hole.

Keywords

Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal – shock waves – stars: individual (GRS 1915+ 105, Cyg X-3) – galaxies: active – galaxies: jets – quasars: individual (3C 273, 3C 279)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S238: Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies – Across the Range of Masses , August 2006 , pp. 305 - 308
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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