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The Effect of Radiation Drag on Relativistic Bulk Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Qinghuan Luo
Qinghuan Luo*
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

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The effect of radiation drag on relativistic bulk flows is re-examined. Highly relativistic bulk flows in the nuclear region are subject to Compton drag, i.e. radiation deceleration as a result of inverse Compton scattering of ambient soft photon fields from emission from the accretion disk, broad line region, or dusty torus. Possible observational consequences of X-/γ-ray emission produced from Compton drag are specifically discussed.

Keywords

scatteringplasmasgalaxies: activegalaxies: nucleigalaxies: jetsradiation mechanisms: non-thermal
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 122 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2002

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