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  title info:
    title: Extragalactic jets
    sub title: theory and observation from radio to gamma ray : proceedings of a workshop held in Girdwood, Alaska, USA, 21-24 May 2007
  name:
    name part: Rector, Travis A. (Travis Arthur)
  name:
    name part: De Young, David.
  name:
    name part: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 561 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "These proceedings of an international meeting held May 2007 in Girdwood, Alaska, USA provide a comprehensive overview of recent theoretical and observational work on the nature of extragalactic jets, from parsec to kiloparsec scales. Special emphasis is given to the interaction of jets with their environment and to the insights this interaction can provide. The invited reviews, contributed talks, and poster sessions form a detailed summary of the latest findings, as well as illustrate outstanding questions that remain to be resolved. This book is suitable for researchers and graduate students. The origin and evolution of highly collimated and highly energetic outflows from the nuclei of some galaxies remains, after over 30 years of intensive study, and enigmatic process. We still do not know how these jets are collimated, or what they contain beyond relativistic particles and magnetic fields, much less how they come to be in the first place. If we could unravel the mystery of their origins, then it is clear that new and significant constraints could also be placed on the origin and evolution of the "central engine," presumably a massive black hole, that creates them. This is turn would give rise to new constraints on the formation and evolution of the parent galaxies and their environment. The quest for insights into the nature of these objects has always been made difficult by the last of information conveyed by their simple power law radiation spectrum, and so much of the information gained must be inferential. However, the hope remains that by gaining an understanding of the interaction of these objects with their environment we may be able to deduce the key parameters of the jets themselves. This strategy of working from "the outside in" is showing increasing promise as higher resolution observations with increasing sensitivity are being made over increased coverage in wavelength, especially as these are cast against results from sophisticated theoretical calcu…
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Travis A. Rector and David S. De Young.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed May 8, 2009).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysical jets
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Jets (Astrophysique)
    genre: Congrès
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Extragalactic jets : theory and observation from radio to gamma ray
    origin info:
      publisher: San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008.
    identifier: (OCoLC)233537435
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 386
  identifier: 9781583813355
  identifier: 1583813357
  identifier: 9781583813362 (eISBN)
  identifier: 1583813365 (eISBN)
  identifier: http://aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/
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    record creation date: 090508
    record change date: 20151201153129.0
    record identifier: in00002558749