Circular Polarisation from Relativistic Jet Sources

Authors
Publication date 2004
ISBN
  • 1402016557
  • 9781402016554
Publisher Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Relativistic jets are a powerful, spectacular, yet poorly-understood phenomenon associated with accreting black holes and neutron stars. The question of the internal structure - matter content and magnetic field - of relativistic jets is of prime importance for our understanding of the underlying physics. The study of circular polarisation is both challenging and potentially very rewarding, and when applied to relativistic jets has the potential to probe the structure of the jets in unique ways.
Document type Book (Editorship)
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004cprj.conf.....M&db_key=AST&high=41f4b95c5106206
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