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Published January 1, 1996 | Published
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On the Jets Associated with Galactic Superluminal Sources

Abstract

Recent observations of GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655+40 reveal superluminal motions in Galactic sources. This Letter examines the physical conditions within these Galactic sources, their interaction with their environment, and their possible formation, and contrasts them with their extragalactic counterparts. In particular, e+-e- and e-p jets are contrasted; constraints on particle acceleration in the jets are imposed using X-ray and radio observations; and the gamma -ray flux from e+-e- jets expected at EGRET energies and the flux in infrared lines from an e-p jet are estimated. It is also suggested that these sources may exhibit low-frequency radio lobes extending up to several hundred parsecs in size, strong, soft X-ray absorption during the birth of the radio components, and emission-line strengths anticorrelated with the X-ray flux. The implications for other X-ray transients are briefly discussed.

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© 1996 The American Astronomical Society. Received 1995 July 6; accepted 1995 October 19. We acknowledge helpful conversations with Charles Bailyn, Bob Hjellming, Dave Meir, Felix Mirabel, Rashid Sunyaev, and participants in the ITP workshop on γ-ray observations. Support under NASA grant NAG 5-2757 and NSF contract PHY 94-07194 is gratefully acknowledged.

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