An X-ray jet in Circinus X-1
Sebastian did well to spot the X-ray jet in one of Norbert's 2005 zero-phase observations of the enigmatic X-ray binary Cir X-1. This source is thus the first neutron star for which an extended X-ray jet has been detected. Previously ultrarelativistic arcsecond-scale radio jets were detected by Rob Fender's group; see their 2004 Nature paper. The kinetic jet power that we infer is significantly larger than the minimum power required for the jet to inflate the large-scale radio nebula.
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