Fast launch speeds in radio flares, from a new determination of the intrinsic motions of SS 433's jet bolides

Robert M. Jeffrey, Katherine M. Blundell, Sergei A. Trushkin +1

We present new high-resolution, multi-epoch, VLBA radio images of the Galactic microquasar SS 433. We are able to observe plasma knots in the milliarcsecond-scale jets more than 50…