TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the role of jets in X-ray binaries and low-luminosity AGN
AU - Markoff, S.
AU - Nowak, M.
AU - Falcke, H.
AU - Maccarone, T.
AU - Fender, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
an NSF Astronomy and As- Fellowship under award AST-
PY - 2004/6
Y1 - 2004/6
N2 - While we know jets play an active role in both the emission and dynamics of active galactic nuclei, the extent of their contribution to the high-energy spectra of X-ray binaries (XRBs) and low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) is not yet constrained. Synchrotron radiation from a jet has been shown capable of explaining the broadband hard state emission of XRBs, as well as the radio/X-ray correlations seen now in several sources. We discuss the trends in our model parameters from fitting a number of stellar and galactic sources, some of which we find to be dominated in the hard X-rays by inverse Compton, and what we can infer about the relationship of the jet to the corona/disk. For XRBs, we present some ideas about why the optically thick-to-thin turnover in the hard state seems to always occur in the same frequency range. Finally, we discuss the effect of the jet being misaligned from the outer disk.
AB - While we know jets play an active role in both the emission and dynamics of active galactic nuclei, the extent of their contribution to the high-energy spectra of X-ray binaries (XRBs) and low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) is not yet constrained. Synchrotron radiation from a jet has been shown capable of explaining the broadband hard state emission of XRBs, as well as the radio/X-ray correlations seen now in several sources. We discuss the trends in our model parameters from fitting a number of stellar and galactic sources, some of which we find to be dominated in the hard X-rays by inverse Compton, and what we can infer about the relationship of the jet to the corona/disk. For XRBs, we present some ideas about why the optically thick-to-thin turnover in the hard state seems to always occur in the same frequency range. Finally, we discuss the effect of the jet being misaligned from the outer disk.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.04.016
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.04.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:23744491252
SN - 0920-5632
VL - 132
SP - 129
EP - 134
JO - Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
JF - Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
ER -