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Galactic X-ray binary jets

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With their relatively fast variability time-scales, Galactic X-ray binaries provide an excellent laboratory to explore the physics of accretion and related phenomena, most notably outflows, over different regimes. After comparing the phenomenology of jets in black hole systems to that of neutron stars, here I discuss the role of the jet at very low Eddington ratios, and present preliminary results obtained by fitting the broadband spectral energy distribution of a quiescent black hole binary with a ‘maximally jet-dominated’ model.

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Gallo, E. Galactic X-ray binary jets. Astrophys Space Sci 311, 161–165 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-007-9571-z

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