Jets from stars and galactic nuclei. Proceedings of a workshop, Bad Honnef, Germany, July 3-7, 1995 (Q1920720): Difference between revisions

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The aim of the meeting was to promote the better understanding of an astrophysical family of jet sources. This family incorporates the extragalactic radio sources powered by an active galactic nucleus, the bipolar flows from young stellar objects, the jets from binary neutron stars or black hole candidates, and finally, the jets inside planetary nebulae illuminated by a young or in statu nascendi white dwarf. The members of this family show strikingly similar features. They have elongated forms which are thought to be generated by supersonic flows, the forms seem to have something like a hot core, and knots, then heads and lobes which may be taken as eventual Herbig-Haro objects, then bowshocks and cocoons, etc. which can be interpreted in terms of these concepts. As regards interpretation of the observations, the astrophysical explanations, the possibilities are various, and they differ in capacity and efficiency. The frequent key assumptions are concerned with the central engine, the jet substance and focusing, the boosting of the electron energies. Some propositions are not afraid to violate the second law admitting that mildly relativistic protons can transfer their energy to extreme relativistic electrons, whenever it is needed. Others consider this as a Münchhausen trick and choose another view of the electron-proton-plasma, and so on, in trying practically everything possible or maybe even impossible to serve a consistent explanation of the rich subject. A discussion -- a brain storming -- of the experts in the subject, which resulted in this collection of contributions, may accelerate the elaboration of a coherent actual picture which cannot be formed without simultaneous exchange of ideas, without a meeting like this. The volume offers 28 papers, i.e. five on general and special interpretation, four on jet formation mechanism, two on jets from young stars, three on jets from compact binaries, one on jets in planetary nebulae, five on jets from the core of active galactic nuclei and four beyond the core, three concerning our galactic nucleus, and one on numerical simulations.