Hot Spots in Extragalactic Radio Sources

Hermann-Josef Röser ist Privatdozent am Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg. Neben aktiver Forschung hält er Einführungsvorlesungen und -seminare. Dadurch Er war bis zu seiner Emeritierung Professor für Astronomie an der Universität Göttingen.

Hot spot radio galaxies - an introduction.- Radio observation of hot spots.- Compact hotspots, double hotspots, and source asymmetry.- Cygnus a and the Williams model.- A tale of two hot spots.- 3C332: A source with an "exceptional" multiple hot spot morphology.- Constraints on the hotspot advance speed in the core-dominated quasar 1510-089.- The extended structure of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36: radio polarization and optical emission lines.- New VLA results on M87.- Digital photometry of the jet in M 87.- Imaging polarimetry of the jet in m 87.- Continuum observations of hot spots at wavelengths < 1 cm.- Multifrequency flux determination in the hot spot of 3C33 South.- A blue and polarized source along the radio axis of PKS 2152-69.- Extended optical line emission in radio galaxies.- Highly ionized gas in PKS 2152-69.- Models of hot spots.- The terminal shock in jets.- Giant radio galaxies via inverse Compton weakened jets.- Jet speed, beaming & sidedness, and all that.- How important are currents and fields in radio sources?.- Numerical simulations of hot spots.- Walljets.- Simulations of synchrotron loss in hotspots.- The influence of magnetic fields on the propagation of supersonic jets.- Fermi acceleration.- First-order fermi acceleration at relativistic shock fronts.- Spectral indices from relativistic and non-relativistic shocks.- Shock acceleration theory applied - The spectra of radio hot spots.- Synchrotron-emission - photons and neutrinos - from shockwave regions in active galactic nuclei, jet and hot spots.- Remarks about diffusive shock pave acceleration.- Particle acceleration in hotspots.- Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration.- Stochastic acceleration of relativistic electrons in synchroton sources with turbulently reconnectingmagnetic fields.