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Relativistic Jet from Black Hole

An artist's impression of a relativistic jet propagating away from a black hole at close to the speed of light. Such jets are formed by the inner regions of the accretion flow: matter flowing inwards towards the black hole, via processes which are not yet fully understood. The accretion flow emits primarily in X-rays, the relativistic jet in the radio band: by combing observations in each band we can try and understand how such jets form and how much energy they carry away from the black hole.

Professor Rob Fender

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • MeerKAT
  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • Rubin-LSST
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Gamma-ray astronomy
Rob.Fender@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73435
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 712
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  • Publications

Zooming in on a sleeping giant: Milliarcsecond High Sensitivity Array imaging of the black hole binary V404 Cyg in quiescence

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 388:4 (2008) 1751-1758

Authors:

JCA Miller-Jones, E Gallo, MP Rupen, AJ Mioduszewski, W Brisken, RP Fender, PG Jonker, TJ Maccarone

Abstract:

Observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cyg with the very long baseline interferometer the High Sensitivity Array (HSA) have detected the source at a frequency of 8.4 GHz, providing a source position accurate to 0.3 mas relative to the calibrator source. The observations put an upper limit of 1.3 mas on the source size (5.2 au at 4 kpc) and a lower limit of 7 × 106 K on its brightness temperature during the normal quiescent state, implying that the radio emission must be non-thermal, most probably synchrotron radiation, possibly from a jet. The radio light curves show a short flare, with a rise time of ∼30 min, confirming that the source remains active in the quiescent state. © 2008 The Authors.

The First Polarimetric Signatures of Infrared Jets in X-Ray Binaries

\apj 672 (2008) 510-515-510-515

Authors:

T Shahbaz, RP Fender, CA Watson, K O Brien

BLAZING TRAILS: MICROQUASARS AS HEAD-TAIL SOURCES AND THE SEEDING OF MAGNETIZED PLASMA INTO THE ISM

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 686:2 (2008) 1145-1154

Authors:

S Heinz, HJ Grimm, RA Sunyaev, RP Fender

Broadband X-ray spectra of GX 339-4 and the geometry of accreting black holes in the hard state

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 680:1 (2008) 593-601

Authors:

John A Tomsick, Emrah Kalemci, Philip Kaaret, Sera Markoff, Stephane Corbel, Simone Migliari, Rob Fender, Charles D Bailyn, Michelle M Buxton

Monitoring LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescopes

(2007)

Authors:

Fraser Lewis, David M Russell, Rob P Fender, Paul Roche

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