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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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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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High-energy gamma-ray observations of the accreting black hole V404 Cygni during its June 2015 outburst

(2016)

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A Loh, S Corbel, G Dubus, J Rodriguez, I Grenier, T Hovatta, T Pearson, A Readhead, R Fender, K Mooley
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Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 826:1 (2016) L13-L13

Authors:

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, P Addesso, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, B Allen, A Allocca, PA Altin, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, MC Araya

Abstract:

A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The event, initially designated G184098 and later given the name GW150914, is described in detail elsewhere. By prior arrangement, preliminary estimates of the time, significance, and sky location of the event were shared with 63 teams of observers covering radio, optical, near-infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths with ground- and space-based facilities. In this Letter we describe the low-latency analysis of the GW data and present the sky localization of the first observed compact binary merger. We summarize the follow-up observations reported by 25 teams via private Gamma-ray Coordinates Network circulars, giving an overview of the participating facilities, the GW sky localization coverage, the timeline, and depth of the observations. As this event turned out to be a binary black hole merger, there is little expectation of a detectable electromagnetic (EM) signature. Nevertheless, this first broadband campaign to search for a counterpart of an Advanced LIGO source represents a milestone and highlights the broad capabilities of the transient astronomy community and the observing strategies that have been developed to pursue neutron star binary merger events. Detailed investigations of the EM data and results of the EM follow-up campaign are being disseminated in papers by the individual teams.
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Supplement: “Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series American Astronomical Society 225:8 (2016) 1-15

Authors:

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, Ian Heywood

Abstract:

This Supplement provides supporting material for Abbott et al. (2016a). We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the current EM follow-up program. We compare the four probability sky maps produced for the gravitational-wave transient GW150914, and provide additional details of the EM follow-up observations that were performed in the different bands.
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