TUNA Lunch Talk:

Robert Jeffrey

University of Oxford

High-Resolution, "Wide"-Field, Multi-Epoch Observations of The Galactic Microquasar SS433

October 7

12:10PM, Room 230, NRAO, Edgemont Road

Abstract:

I will present the first very high resolution, yet also wide field, images of SS433, the famous relativistic microquasar in our own Galaxy. These milli-arcsecond resolution images are from data collected by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). They were made during nine epochs spread over 15 months, in order to span the ~550-day periodicity recently observed in its circumbinary disc. I will describe the new insights these remarkable images have begun to given us into the behaviour of the jet plasma post-launch, and I will outline some of the challenges involved in making high resolution images of a time-varying source.