The simultaneity of emission from approaching and receding jets
arXiv:2209.10397 · doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slac113
Abstract
We show that the standard Blandford-Königl model for compact conical relativistic jets has a peculiar feature: at a given observed frequency of radiation, the emission from the approaching jet arrives at the location of a distant observer at the same time as the emission from the counterjet for all finite inclination angles. We show that this result can be used to determine whether jets are genuinely symmetric, if the cross-coherence between radio and X-ray time series can be measured at high Fourier frequency for a sample of neutron star X-ray binaries with a range of inclination angles. We also discuss echo mapping techniques that can be used to look for deviations from the standard model in high cadence time series data on X-ray binary jets, and conclude that these can plausibly be applied to some systems.
6 pages, 1 figure, accepted to MNRAS Letters
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