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Relativistic Jet from Black Hole

An artist's impression of a relativistic jet propagating away from a black hole at close to the speed of light. Such jets are formed by the inner regions of the accretion flow: matter flowing inwards towards the black hole, via processes which are not yet fully understood. The accretion flow emits primarily in X-rays, the relativistic jet in the radio band: by combing observations in each band we can try and understand how such jets form and how much energy they carry away from the black hole.

Professor Rob Fender

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • MeerKAT
  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • Rubin-LSST
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Gamma-ray astronomy
Rob.Fender@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73435
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 712
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  • Publications

Disk-Jet quenching of the Galactic Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127

(2016)

Authors:

AP Rushton, AW Shaw, RP Fender, D Altamirano, P Gandhi, P Uttley, PA Charles, M Kolehmainen, GE Anderson, C Rumsey, DJ Titterington
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Engineering and science highlights of the KAT-7 radio telescope

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 460:2 (2016) 1664-1679

Authors:

AR Foley, T Alberts, RP Armstrong, A Barta, EF Bauermeister, H Bester, S Blose, RS Booth, DH Botha, SJ Buchner, C Carignan, T Cheetham, K Cloete, G Coreejes, RC Crida, SD Cross, F Curtolo, A Dikgale, MS de Villiers, LJ du Toit, SWP Esterhuyse, B Fanaroff, RP Fender, M Fijalkowski, D Fourie, B Frank, D George, P Gibbs, S Goedhart, J Grobbelaar, SC Gumede, P Herselman, KM Hess, N Hoek, J Horrell, JL Jonas, JDB Jordaan, R Julie, F Kapp, P Kotzé, T Kusel, A Langman, R Lehmensiek, D Liebenberg, IJV Liebenberg, A Loots, RT Lord, DM Lucero, J Ludick, P Macfarlane, M Madlavana, L Magnus, C Magozore, JA Malan, JR Manley, L Marais, N Marais, SJ Marais, M Maree, A Martens, O Mokone, V Moss, S Mthembu, W New, GD Nicholson, PC van Niekerk, N Oozeer, SS Passmoor, A Peens-Hough, AB Pińska, P Prozesky, S Rajan, S Ratcliffe, R Renil, LL Richter, D Rosekrans, A Rust, AC Schröder, LC Schwardt, S Seranyane, M Serylak, DS Shepherd, R Siebrits, L Sofeya, R Spann, R Springbok, PS Swart, Venkatasubramani L Thondikulam, IP Theron, A Tiplady, O Toruvanda, S Tshongweni, L van den Heever, C van der Merwe, R van Rooyen, S Wakhaba, AL Walker, M Welz, L Williams, M Wolleben, PA Woudt, NJ Young, JTL Zwart
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MeerLICHT and BlackGEM: custom-built telescopes to detect faint optical transients

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9906 (2016) 990664-990664-9

Authors:

Steven Bloemen, Paul Groot, Patrick Woudt, Marc Klein Wolt, Vanessa McBride, Gijs Nelemans, Elmar Körding, Margaretha L Pretorius, Ronald Roelfsema, Felix Bettonvil, Harry Balster, Roy Bakker, Peter Dolron, Arjen van Elteren, Eddy Elswijk, Arno Engels, Rob Fender, Marc Fokker, Menno de Haan, Klaas Hagoort, Jasper de Hoog, Rik ter Horst, Giel van der Kevie, Stanisław Kozłowski, Jan Kragt, Grzegorz Lech, Rudolf Le Poole, Dirk Lesman, Johan Morren, Ramon Navarro, Willem-Jelle Paalberends, Kerry Paterson, Rafal Pawłaszek, Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Harrie Rutten, Bart Scheers, Menno Schuil, Piotr W Sybilski
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The LOFT mission concept: a status update

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9905 (2016) 99051r-99051r-20

Authors:

M Feroci, E Bozzo, S Brandt, M Hernanz, M van der Klis, L-P Liu, P Orleanski, M Pohl, A Santangelo, S Schanne, L Stella, T Takahashi, H Tamura, A Watts, J Wilms, S Zane, S-N Zhang, S Bhattacharyya, I Agudo, M Ahangarianabhari, C Albertus, M Alford, A Alpar, D Altamirano, L Alvarez, L Amati, C Amoros, N Andersson, A Antonelli, A Argan, R Artigue, B Artigues, J-L Atteia, P Azzarello, P Bakala, D Ballantyne, G Baldazzi, M Baldo, S Balman, M Barbera, C van Baren, D Barret, A Baykal, M Begelman, E Behar, O Behar, T Belloni, F Bernardini, G Bertuccio, S Bianchi, A Bianchini, P Binko, P Blay, F Bocchino, M Bode, P Bodin, I Bombaci, J-M Bonnet Bidaud, S Boutloukos, F Bouyjou, L Bradley, J Braga, MS Briggs, E Brown, M Buballa, N Bucciantini, L Burderi, M Burgay, M Bursa, C Budtz-Jørgensen, E Cackett, F Cadoux, P Cais, GA Caliandro, R Campana, S Campana, X Cao, F Capitanio, J Casares, P Casella, AJ Castro-Tirado, E Cavazzuti, Y Cavechi, S Celestin, P Cerda-Duran, D Chakrabarty, N Chamel, F Château, C Chen, Y Chen, Y Chen, J Chenevez, M Chernyakova, J Coker, R Cole, A Collura, M Coriat, R Cornelisse, L Costamante, A Cros, W Cui, A Cumming, G Cusumano, B Czerny, A D'Aì, F D'Ammando, V D'Elia, Z Dai, E Del Monte, A De Luca, D De Martino, JPC Dercksen, M De Pasquale, A De Rosa, M Del Santo, S Di Cosimo, N Degenaar, JW den Herder, S Diebold, T Di Salvo, Y Dong, I Donnarumma, V Doroshenko, G Doyle, SA Drake, M Durant, D Emmanoulopoulos, T Enoto, MH Erkut, P Esposito, Y Evangelista, A Fabian, M Falanga, Y Favre, C Feldman, R Fender, H Feng, V Ferrari, C Ferrigno, M Finger, MH Finger, GW Fraser, M Frericks, M Fullekrug, F Fuschino, M Gabler, DK Galloway, JL Gálvez Sanchez, P Gandhi, Z Gao, E Garcia-Berro, B Gendre, O Gevin, S Gezari, AB Giles, M Gilfanov, P Giommi, G Giovannini, M Giroletti, E Gogus, A Goldwurm, K Goluchová, D Götz, L Gou, C Gouiffes, P Grandi, M Grassi, J Greiner, V Grinberg, P Groot, M Gschwender, L Gualtieri, M Guedel, C Guidorzi, L Guy, D Haas, P Haensel, M Hailey, K Hamuguchi, F Hansen, DH Hartmann, CA Haswell, K Hebeler, A Heger, M Hempel, W Hermsen, J Homan, A Hornstrup, R Hudec, J Huovelin, D Huppenkothen, SC Inam, A Ingram, JJM In't Zand, G Israel, K Iwasawa, L Izzo, HM Jacobs, F Jetter, T Johannsen, PA Jenke, P Jonker, J Josè, P Kaaret, K Kalamkar, E Kalemci, G Kanbach, V Karas, D Karelin, D Kataria, L Keek, T Kennedy, D Klochkov, W Kluzniak, E Koerding, K Kokkotas, S Komossa, S Korpela, C Kouveliotou, AF Kowalski, I Kreykenbohm, LM Kuiper, D Kunneriath, A Kurkela, I Kuvvetli, F La Franca, C Labanti, D Lai, FK Lamb, C Lachaud, PP Laubert, F Lebrun, X Li, E Liang, O Limousin, D Lin, M Linares, D Linder, G Lodato, F Longo, F Lu, N Lund, TJ Maccarone, D Macera, S Maestre, S Mahmoodifar, D Maier, P Malcovati, J Malzac, C Malone, I Mandel, V Mangano, A Manousakis, M Marelli, J Margueron, M Marisaldi, SB Markoff, A Markowitz, A Marinucci, A Martindale, G Martínez, IM McHardy, G Medina-Tanco, M Mehdipour, A Melatos, M Mendez, S Mereghetti, S Migliari, R Mignani, M Michalska, T Mihara, MC Miller, JM Miller, T Mineo, G Miniutti, S Morsink, C Motch, S Motta, M Mouchet, G Mouret, J Mulačová, F Muleri, T Muñoz-Darias, I Negueruela, J Neilsen, T Neubert, AJ Norton, M Nowak, A Nucita, P O'Brien, M Oertel, PEH Olsen, M Orienti, M Orio, M Orlandini, JP Osborne, R Osten, F Ozel, L Pacciani, F Paerels, S Paltani, M Paolillo, I Papadakis, A Papitto, Z Paragi, JM Paredes, A Patruno, B Paul, F Pederiva, E Perinati, A Pellizzoni, AV Penacchioni, U Peretz, MA Perez, M Perez-Torres, BM Peterson, V Petracek, C Pittori, J Pons, J Portell, A Possenti, K Postnov, J Poutanen, M Prakash, I Prandoni, H Le Provost, D Psaltis, J Pye, J Qu, D Rambaud, P Ramon, G Ramsay, M Rapisarda, A Rashevski, I Rashevskaya, PS Ray, N Rea, S Reddy, P Reig, M Reina Aranda, R Remillard, C Reynolds, L Rezzolla, M Ribo, R de la Rie, A Riggio, A Rios, DH Rischke, P Rodríguez-Gil, J Rodriguez, R Rohlfs, P Romano, EMR Rossi, A Rozanska, A Rousseau, B Rudak, DM Russell, F Ryde, L Sabau-Graziati, T Sakamoto, G Sala, R Salvaterra, D Salvetti, A Sanna, J Sandberg, T Savolainen, S Scaringi, J Schaffner-Bielich, H Schatz, J Schee, C Schmid, M Serino, N Shakura, S Shore, JD Schnittman, R Schneider, A Schwenk, AD Schwope, A Sedrakian, J-Y Seyler, A Shearer, A Slowikowska, M Sims, A Smith, DM Smith, PJ Smith, M Sobolewska, V Sochora, P Soffitta, P Soleri, L Song, A Spencer, A Stamerra, B Stappers, R Staubert, AW Steiner, N Stergioulas, AL Stevens, G Stratta, TE Strohmayer, Z Stuchlik, S Suchy, V Suleimanov, F Tamburini, T Tauris, F Tavecchio, C Tenzer, FK Thielemann, A Tiengo, L Tolos, F Tombesi, J Tomsick, G Torok, JM Torrejon, DF Torres, E Torresi, A Tramacere, I Traulsen, A Trois, R Turolla, S Turriziani, S Typel, P Uter, P Uttley, A Vacchi, P Varniere, S Vaughan, S Vercellone, M Vietri, FH Vincent, V Vrba, D Walton, J Wang, Z Wang, S Watanabe, R Wawrzaszek, N Webb, N Weinberg, H Wende, P Wheatley, R Wijers, R Wijnands, M Wille, CA Wilson-Hodge, B Winter, SJ Walk, K Wood, SE Woosley, X Wu, R Xu, W Yu, F Yuan, W Yuan, Y Yuan, G Zampa, N Zampa, L Zampieri, L Zdunik, A Zdziarski, A Zech, B Zhang, C Zhang, S Zhang, M Zingale, F Zwart
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High-energy gamma-ray observations of the accreting black hole V404 Cygni during its 2015 June outburst

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Oxford University Press (OUP) 462:1 (2016) l111-l115

Authors:

A Loh, S Corbel, G Dubus, J Rodriguez, I Grenier, T Hovatta, T Pearson, A Readhead, R Fender, K Mooley
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