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Microquasars are a small-scaled version of their extragalactic parents, the quasars with which they share the same physics [5]. They have a central black-hole (here of stellar mass), an accretion disk and (sometime persistent) jets. These jets are sometimes relativistic, and can reach apparent superluminal motion. However, the superluminal “property” depends on the distance between the object and the observer.
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Foellmi, C. (2008). Bisectors as Distance Estimators for Microquasars?. In: Santos, N.C., Pasquini, L., Correia, A.C.M., Romaniello, M. (eds) Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75485-5_66
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