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Relativistic Flows in Astrophysics

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Editors:
  1. Axel W. Guthmann

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Markos Georganopoulos

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Konstantina Manolakou

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

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  4. Alexandre Marcowith

    1. CESR, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 589)

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1. 1 Schematic Picture of AGN Some galaxies are known to emit radiation with extremely high luminosities from a rather small volume in the ??ray, X-ray and UV continuum. Such active cores are the so-called Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and the radiation is commonly believed to be a result of gravitational energy released by matter spiraling around 9 a supermassive central black hole of about 10 M (see Fig. 1). Though the central engine which produces the enormous observed activity cannot be resolved observationally, a standard picture of an AGN has gradually emerged to explain the richness of the radiation spectra: • an accretion disk with radius from about 2 to 100 gravitational radii, R , g feeding the central black hole and emitting mainly in the UV and soft X-rays; • the broad line optically emitting clouds (BLR), which seem to be absent in 3 some sources (e. g. FRI, see hereafter) and extend up to a few 10 R from g the center.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Radiative Processes in Relativistic Outflows

    • Apostolos Mastichiadis
    Pages 1-23

  3. Particle Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks

    • Yves A. Gallant
    Pages 24-40

  4. Jet Formation and Collimation

    • Christophe Sauty, Kanaris Tsinganos, Edoardo Trussoni
    Pages 41-70

  5. The Evolution of Classical Double Radio Galaxies

    • Katherine M. Blundell
    Pages 71-87

  6. Blazars

    • Annalisa Celotti
    Pages 88-100

  7. Relativistic Outflows from X-ray Binaries (‘Microquasars’)

    • Rob Fender
    Pages 101-122

  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Afterglow Revolution

    • Titus J. Galama, Re’em Sari
    Pages 123-168

  9. Observations and Simulations of Relativistic Jets

    • José-Luis Gómez
    Pages 169-196

  10. 3D Relativistic Hydrodynamics

    • Miguel A. Aloy, José M. Martí
    Pages 197-226

  11. Epilogue

    • Roger Blandford
    Pages 227-237

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-242
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

    Axel W. Guthmann, Markos Georganopoulos, Konstantina Manolakou

  • CESR, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Alexandre Marcowith

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Relativistic Flows in Astrophysics

  • Editors: Axel W. Guthmann, Markos Georganopoulos, Konstantina Manolakou, Alexandre Marcowith

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46025-X

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43518-1Published: 23 July 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07804-0Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46025-1Published: 11 January 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 246

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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