出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Accreting black holes and neutron stars release an unknown fraction of the infalling particles and
energy in the form of collimated jets. The jets themselves are radiatively inefficient, but their
power can be constrained by observing their interaction with the surrounding environment. Here
we present observations of X-ray binary jet-ISM interactions which produce optical line emission,
using the ESO/MPI 2.2 m and Isaac Newton Telescopes. We constrain the time-averaged power
of the Cyg X–1 jet-powered nebula, and present a number of new candidate nebulae discovered.
Comparisons are made to the large scale lobes of extragalactic AGN.We also speculate that some
emission line emitters close to X-ray binaries in M31 are likely to be microquasar jet-powered
nebulae.
