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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

Initial low/hard state, multiple jet ejections and X-ray/radio correlations during the outburst of XTE J1859+226

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 331:3 (2002) 765-775

Authors:

C Brocksopp, RP Fender, M McCollough, GG Pooley, MP Rupen, RM Hjellming, CJ de La Force, RE Spencer, TWB Muxlow, ST Garrington, S Trushkin

Spectral, polarization and time-lag properties of GRS 1915+105 radio oscillations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 330:1 (2002) 212-218

Authors:

RP Fender, D Rayner, SA Trushkin, K O'Brien, RJ Sault, GG Pooley, RP Norris

The Hard Truth about Some "Soft" X-ray Transients

(2002)

Authors:

RM Bandyopadhyay, C Brocksopp, RP Fender

Abstract:

We have accumulated multiwavelength lightcurves for eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed ``soft X-ray transient'' outburst, but which in fact remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the QPOs and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a subclass of X-ray transients (XRTs). However, rather than assuming that these hard state XRTs are different from ``canonical'' soft XRTs, we prefer to consider the possibility that a new analysis of both soft and hard state XRTs in a spectral context will provide a model capable of explaining the outburst mechanisms for the majority of black hole X-ray binaries.

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

Chapter in Relativistic Flows in Astrophysics, Springer Nature 589 (2002) 101-122

The Power of Jets: New Clues from Radio Circular Polarization and X-Rays

Chapter in Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology, Springer Nature (2002) 428-435

Authors:

Heino Falcke, Thomas Beckert, Sera Markoff, Elmar Körding, Geoffrey C Bower, Rob Fender

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