ENGLISH

Hot Spots in Extragalactic Radio Sources

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1989
ISBN
3540509933, 9783540509936
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3064809 bytes)
Series
LNP0327
Edition
1
Pages
315\315
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This collection of papers presents a rather complete review of current knowledge of hot spots in some strong extragalactic radio sources. An overview of known results along with new data on radio observations and optical observations is given in the first and second parts of the book. Recent computational techniques which allow modelling and simulations of hot spots and jet behaviour are presented in the third part. The fourth part discusses particle acceleration and shock front phenomena. The articles will help the reader to appreciate the role hot spots play as laboratories for studying the interaction of jets with the surrounding medium and for testing our understanding of the overall source dynamics. The book is a valuable complement to the existing literature and an excellent introduction to this fairly new field of research.

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