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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 4:15pm

Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu (INAF):

"How hot is an AGN jet?"

Abstract. More than 100 years after the introduction of Special relativity, there is still not yet a consensus concerning a covariant definition of temperature. This reflects into some puzzling questions when one comes to apply special relativity to the thermodynamic of relativistic jets.