Disk-Jet Connection in Agns and Microquasars: The Possibility of Thermal Flares in the Center

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of thermal flares in centers of AGNs and microquasars. We present preliminary results of an ongoing study trying to assess the feasibility of a hypothesis suggesting that certain flares observed in these sources originate in the very centers of the systems and not in the relativistic jets. Using a simple toy model we reproduce optical flares with lightcurves very similar to those observed in the sources. The model suits especially well those cases where only the latter peak of a double-peaked optical flare has a radio counterpart.

6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the HEPRO II conference, Buenos Aires, October 26-30 2009

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