PRECESSION OF QUASAR-LIKE JETS FROM GALACTIC STAR

Movie of continuous jets ejected from SS433 along twin-corkscrew patterns, the axis precesses like a spinning top and the jets respond like water ejected from a spinning lawn sprinkler. The VLA radio images at 4.9 and 15 Ghz were taken over the span of several months in 1980-81. (see also the MERLIN Movie)

• "SS433 is like another X-ray emitting binary, Cyg X-3, whose radio flares are nearly identical examples of radiation events of the type most often thought of in connection with quasars."
  -Hjellming, 1991

	VLBI image of high velocity jets expanding away from X-ray binary Cyg X-3, the distance is uncertain because it is based on HI absorption, which makes assumptions about hydrogen density distributions along the intervening spiral arms. (Johnston, 1987)
	15 Ghz VLA image of symbiotic star CH Cyg showing jets moving at a rate of 1.1 arcsec per year (Taylor, 1986)

Many radio emitting OB stars and Wolf-Rayets don't fit the standard theory of simple free-free emission from ionized winds. Non-thermal radiation from synchrotron mechanisms or shocks in the outer parts of the winds may be the source of the anomalous radio emissions. The optical spectra of SS 433 has very strong and broad emission lines very similar to the typical quasar spectra (PHL 5200). There is no clear dividing line between the symbiotic stars, slow novae and stellar winds. If the quasar redshift assumption is dropped, the remarkable continuum of properties common to all of these jet emitting stars is easily understood : Quasars are stars within our galaxy !

Radio and optical image of the jet from quasar 3C 273. Helicoidal ejections similar to SS 433 are visible. The jet also resembles HH34 (Herbig-Haro object). (Bahcall et al., 1995)

Laser action (Varshni, 1979) is the extremely obvious solution to one of the most intriguing astrophysical problems of the century has been ignored by overly competitive astronomers too entrenched in their cosmological quasar interpretation to take notice of the similarity between quasars and jet emitting emission line stars. Fang (1981) has also proposed laser action in a rapidly cooled recombining plasma as the source of the strong emission lines in the spectrum of SS 433.

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