Katherine Blundell OBE

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We present the results from a large observing campaign where we obtained 61 medium resolution spectra spread over three months. We thus cover roughly five orbits and about half a precession phase. In this paper we describe the analysis of the so-called "stationary" emission lines, which we use to compute Doppler-maps of the emission distribution in the SS433-system. The radial velocities of the individual line components have been analysed. Periodic variations with the orbital period are confirmed, but also variations on longer timescales are found. These long-term variation might be either either related to the precession phase or to some transient phenomen.

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Chandra observations of 3C432, 3C191 and B2 0902+34 are presented as part of an ongoing search for inverse-Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from high redshift radio sources (Schwartz, 2000). The energy density of the CMB increases with redshift, z, as (1 + Z)(4), so the relatively high redshift of these powerful radio galaxies makes them good candidates for detecting extended inverse-Compton scattering along the radio jet axis: we do indeed detect radio-aligned X-ray emission.