The Formation and Disruption of Black Hole Jets

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Contopoulos, Ioannis (Editor), Gabuzda, Denise (Editor), Kylafis, Nikolaos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 414
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Plasma Physics.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed and studied in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for about half a century and are believed to be fu...

Table of Contents:

• Relativistic jets in stellar systems
• Launching of AGN jets
• Parsec-scale AGN jets
• Kiloparsec-scale AGN jets
• Black hole magnetospheres
• Theory of relativistic jets
• The structure and dynamics of the inner accretion disk
• The origin of the jet magnetic filed: a Cosmic Battery
• X-ray observations, phenomenology, and connection with theory.