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arxiv: astro-ph/0412462 · v1 · submitted 2004-12-17 · 🌌 astro-ph

White dwarfs with jets as non-relativistic analogues of quasars and microquasars?

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keywords energyjetsmicroquasarsaccretinganaloguesdwarfsexhibitquasars
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We explore the similarities between accreting white dwarfs (CH Cyg and MWC 560) and the much more energetic jet sources - quasars and microquasars. To-date we have identified several common attributes: (1) they exhibit collimated outflows (jets); (2) the jets are precessing; (3) these two symbiotic stars exhibit quasar-like emission line spectra; (4) there is a disk-jet connection like that observed in microquasars. Additionally they may have a similar energy source (extraction of rotational energy from the accreting object). Study of the low energy analogues could have important implications for our understanding of their higher energy cousins.

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