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Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy

Wayne State University

2012

Relativistic processes

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On The Role Of The Accretion Disk In Black Hole Disk-Jet Connections, J. M. Miller, G. G. Pooley, A. C. Fabian, M. A. Nowak, R. C. Reis, E. M. Cackett, K. Pottschmidt, J. Wilms Sep 2012

On The Role Of The Accretion Disk In Black Hole Disk-Jet Connections, J. M. Miller, G. G. Pooley, A. C. Fabian, M. A. Nowak, R. C. Reis, E. M. Cackett, K. Pottschmidt, J. Wilms

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Research Publications

Models of jet production in black hole systems suggest that the properties of the accretion disk—such as its mass accretion rate, inner radius, and emergent magnetic field—should drive and modulate the production of relativistic jets. Stellar-mass black holes in the "low/hard" state are an excellent laboratory in which to study disk-jet connections, but few coordinated observations are made using spectrometers that can incisively probe the inner disk. We report on a series of 20 Suzaku observations of Cygnus X-1 made in the jet-producing low/hard state. Contemporaneous radio monitoring was done using the Arcminute MicroKelvin Array radio telescope. Two important and …