{"product_id":"9789401082426","title":"Astrophysical Jets and Their Engines","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAstrophysical Jets and Their Engines\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKundt, Wolfgang\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is the documentation of the first Course on 'Neutron Stars, Active Galactic Nuclei and Jets', of an Erice School with a wide astro­ physical scope. The choice of the subject was made because of an apparent similari­ ty - stressed already at earlier meetings - of four classes of astrophy­ sical jet sources: Active Galactic Nuclei, Young Stellar Objects, Binary Neutron Stars and Binary White Dwarfs. They share important properties such as their morphology, high variability and large veloci­ ty gradients as well as - with some inference - their broad spectrum, hypersonic outflow and core\/lobe power ratio. Despite this apparent similarity of the four source classes, quite different models have been put forward for their description: (i) The central engine of active galactic nuclei has been generally thought to be a black hole, in contrast to the central engine of young stellar objects and cometary nebulae which apparently is a pre-T-Tauri star, some six orders of magnitude less compact, and to the central engine of planetary nebulae which mayor may not be a binary white dwarf. (ii) The elongated lobes, or flow patterns, have been often interpreted as highly directional stellar wind outflows whereas in a few well­ mapped cases, the elongated flow appears to be 'pumped up' through a much narrower channel, or jet, both in the extragalactic and stellar sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-10-01\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789401082426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-009-3927-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240.0cm x160.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 256.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44422257279116,"sku":"9789401082426","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789401082426.jpg?v=1756261967","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789401082426","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}