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Russell, David M.; Lewis, Fraser; Maitra, Dipankar; Dunn, Robert J. H.; Markoff, Sera; Jonker, Peter G.; Linares, Manuel; Tudose, Valeriu
Bibliographical reference
Jets at all Scales, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 275, p. 317-318
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2011
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Description
Most accretion-powered relativistic jet sources in our Galaxy are
transient X-ray binaries (XBs). Efforts to coordinate multiwavelength
observations of these objects have improved dramatically over the last
decade. Now the challenge is to interpret broadband spectral energy
distributions (SEDs) of XBs that are well sampled in both wavelength and
time. Here we focus on the evolution of the jet in their broadband
spectra. Some of the most densely sampled broadband SEDs of a neutron
star transient (IGR J00291+5934) are used to constrain the optically
thick-thin break in the jet spectrum. For the black hole transient XTE
J1550-564, infrared - X-ray correlations, evolution of broadband spectra
and timing signatures indicate that synchrotron emission from the jet
likely dominates the X-ray power law at low luminosities (~(2 ×
10-4 - 2 × 10-3) LEdd) during the
hard state outburst decline.