English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

We discuss the dynamics of microquasar jets in the interstellar medium, withspecific focus on the effects of the X-ray binaries' space velocity withrespect to the local Galactic standard of rest. We argue that, during latestages in the evolution of large scale radio nebulae around microquasars, theram pressure of the interstellar medium due to the microquasar's space velocitybecomes important and that microquasars with high velocities form the Galacticequivalent of extragalactic head-tail sources, i.e., that they leave behindtrails of stripped radio plasma. Because of their higher space velocities,low-mass X-ray binaries are more likely to leave trails than high-mass X-raybinaries. We show that the volume of radio plasma released by microquasars overthe history of the Galaxy is comparable to the disk volume and argue that afraction of a few percent of the radio plasma left behind by the X-ray binaryis likely mixed with the neutral phases of the ISM before the plasma is removedfrom the disk by buoyancy. Because the formation of microquasars is anunavoidable by-product of star formation, and because they can travel far fromtheir birth places, their activity likely has important consequences for theevolution of magnetic fields in forming galaxies. We show that radio emissionfrom the plasma inside the trail should be detectable at low frequencies. Wesuggest that LMXBs with high detected proper motions like XTE J1118+480 will bethe best candidates for such a search.

Blazing trails: Microquasars as head-tail sources and the seeding of magnetized plasma into the ISM