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Superluminal Accelerations Along a Helically Twisted Jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Philip E. Hardee*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

Abstract

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The relativistic dispersion relation describing the spatial growth of a helical perturbation to a relativistic supersonic jet is applied to observations of the nonlinear superluminal acceleration of component C4 along the inner jet in 3C345.

Type
Extragalactic
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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