We have known about the large scale impact of jets from supermassive black holes for decades and have successfully used knowledge gained from the kpc scale radio structures they inflate to study black hole growth and jet formation. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that stellar mass black holes, and even some neutron stars, in X-ray binaries do exactly the same tricks their supermassive cousins do: They produce powerful jets that interact with the ISM, inflating bubbles, producing shocks, and leaving behind cosmic ray laced, magnetized exhaust. I will discuss how we can use thisexhaust to constrain important aspects of accretion and jet physics."
November 18, 2011
11:00 am
Array Operations Center Auditorium
All NRAO employees are invited to attend via video, available in Charlottesville Room 230, Green Bank Room 137 and Tucson N525.
Local Host: Michael Rupen