Radiation from Relativitic Matter

Special Relativity and Radiation

• motivation: special relativity in astrophysics
  • relativistic jets in M87, 3C 296 and Cygnus A, Hercules A, Fornax X
  • superluminal(?) motion in 3C 279 and M87
  • cosmic rays
• Lorentz transformations
• velocity addition and beaming, AGN
• transformation properties of electromagnetic fields