Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Jets in extragalactic radio sources are among the most interesting objects studied in astrophysics. Improvements in the observational methods, including space telescopes, have significantly furthered both the observational situation and our theoretical understanding. The contributions to this volume report on the status of our present knowledge in a comprehensive survey of this field of research. They address specialists as well as graduate students in astrophysics.
Synopsis
The existence of jets emanating from the central sources of radio galaxies and quasars was perhaps the most important discovery for our understanding of the nature of active galactic nuclei. These proceedings present reviews and research papers on extragalactic radio sources. The book begins witha discussion of the phenomenology and models of radio sources. The main partis devoted to detailed studies of jets by VLBI, to the information obtained about the structure of the central source as deduced from variability studies, to production, confinement and velocity of jets as well as to numerical simulations of the jet phenomenon. Reviews of the two best studied jets - those in the radio galaxy M87 and the quasar 3C273 - illustrate our current observational picture of extragalactic radio jets in all accessible wavelength ranges. A section on the influence of the environment on radio galaxies concludes the book. This topical volume addresses researchers and graduate students in astrophysics.