Hot Spots In Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings Of A Workshop, Held At Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Frg, February 8–12, 1988 (lecture Notes In Physics)

This Collection Of Papers Presents A Rather Complete Review Of Current Knowledge Of Hot Spots In Some Strong Extragalactic Radio Sources. An Overview Of Known Results Along With New Data On Radio Observations And Optical Observations Is Given In The First And Second Parts Of The Book. Recent Computational Techniques Which Allow Modelling And Simulations Of Hot Spots And Jet Behaviour Are Presented In The Third Part. The Fourth Part Discusses Particle Acceleration And Shock Front Phenomena. The Articles Will Help The Reader To Appreciate The Role Hot Spots Play As Laboratories For Studying The Interaction Of Jets With The Surrounding Medium And For Testing Our Understanding Of The Overall Source Dynamics. The Book Is A Valuable Complement To The Existing Literature And An Excellent Introduction To This Fairly New Field Of Research. K. Meisenheimer, H.-j. Röser, (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Hot spot radio galaxies — an introduction....Pages 1-26 Radio observation of hot spots....Pages 27-44 Compact hotspots, double hotspots, and source asymmetry....Pages 45-50 Cygnus a and the Williams model....Pages 51-60 A tale of two hot spots....Pages 61-66 3C332: A source with an “exceptional” multiple hot spot morphology....Pages 67-68 Constraints on the hotspot advance speed in the core-dominated quasar 1510-089....Pages 69-74 The extended structure of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36: radio polarization and optical emission lines....Pages 75-76 New VLA results on M87....Pages 77-88 Digital photometry of the jet in M 87....Pages 89-89 Imaging polarimetry of the jet in m 87....Pages 89-90 Continuum observations of hot spots at wavelengths < 1 cm....Pages 91-114 Multifrequency flux determination in the hot spot of 3C33 South....Pages 115-118 A blue and polarized source along the radio axis of PKS 2152-69....Pages 119-120 Extended optical line emission in radio galaxies....Pages 121-152 Highly ionized gas in PKS 2152-69....Pages 153-158 Models of hot spots....Pages 159-166 The terminal shock in jets....Pages 167-172 Giant radio galaxies via inverse Compton weakened jets....Pages 173-178 Jet speed, beaming & sidedness, and all that....Pages 179-184 How important are currents and fields in radio sources?....Pages 185-192 Numerical simulations of hot spots....Pages 193-214 Walljets....Pages 215-218 Simulations of synchrotron loss in hotspots....Pages 219-224 The influence of magnetic fields on the propagation of supersonic jets....Pages 225-230 Fermi acceleration....Pages 231-240 First-order fermi acceleration at relativistic shock fronts....Pages 241-246 Spectral indices from relativistic and non-relativistic shocks....Pages 247-252 Shock acceleration theory applied — The spectra of radio hot spots....Pages 253-260 Synchrotron-emission - photons and neutrinos - from shockwave regions in active galactic nuclei, jet and hot spots....Pages 261-264 Remarks about diffusive shock pave acceleration....Pages 265-274 Particle acceleration in hotspots....Pages 275-278 Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration....Pages 279-290 Stochastic acceleration of relativistic electrons in synchroton sources with turbulently reconnecting magnetic fields....Pages 291-298