The asymmetric compact jet of GRS 1915 + 105
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We present multiepoch VLBA observations of the compact jet of GRS 1915+105 conducted at 15.0 and 8.4 GHz during a plateau state of the source in 2003 March-April. These observations show that the compact jet is clearly asymmetric. Assuming an intrinsically symmetric continuous jet flow, using Doppler boosting arguments and an angle to the line of sight of θ = 70 • , we obtain values for the velocity of the flow in the range 0.3–0.5c. These values are much higher than in previous observations of such compact jet, although much lower than the highly relativistic values found during individual ejection events. These preliminary results are compatible with current ideas on the jet flow velocity for black holes in the low/hard state.
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