Beams, Bursts, Bubbles, and Bullets: Relativistic Outflows in Astrophysics
- Full Thesis
- Abstract, Acknowledgments, and Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Jet Acceleration by Tangled Magnetic Fields
- Chapter 3. Energetics of Jets and the M87 Jet
- Chapter 4. Evolutionary Signatures of Radio Galaxies
- Chapter 5. A Shotgun Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Chapter 6. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix A. A More Realistic Dissipation Law for the Tangled Field Model
- Appendix B. Details of Synchrotron Emission
- Appendix C. Derivation of the Dispersion Relation for the Relativistic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability