Light jets near light speed

Tom Jones ()
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Tom Jones: the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6701, 440-441

Abstract: What creates the high-speed jets of material that emerge from quasars, radio galaxies and other active galactic nuclei? A subtle feature in the radio emission from one quasar is evidence that these jets are mostly made of electron-positron pairs, with only a small number of protons. This lightweight plasma should be easier to accelerate than a heavy mix of electrons and protons.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/26623

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