Speaker
Gustavo Esteban Romero
(Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía)
Description
Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei start as a Poynting flux produced in the ergosphere of rapidly rotating black holes. However, at distances of a few tens of gravitational radii from the black hole these jets produce synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation, a clear indication that they have a significant content of charged particles. In this talk I discuss the origin of such particles with emphasis on the role played by the hot accretion flows in the process of jet generation.
Author
Gustavo Esteban Romero
(Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía)
