Matter caught in the forward and reverse shock at the heads of these features forms cocoons that surround and shape them. In models based on a paper by Donald Lynden-Bell, these features remain Poynting-flux-dominated over large distances due to “magnetic towers” that are laterally stabilized by ambient gas. SS 433 was the first known binary system to display these features, making that system the first microquasar. The opening angle of these features determines the shape of a namesake break in gamma ray burst afterglow light curves after which the curves dramatically steepen. The formation of these features by young stars was discovered by George Herbig and Guillermo Haro. Around black holes, these features are sustained by magnetic fields generated in accretion disks. For 10 points, name these highly collimated ejections of plasma pointing along the axis of rotation of galactic nuclei. ■END■
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 76% | 0% | 43% | 116.56 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Chen | Cornell A | Virginia A | 65 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | North Carolina A | Iowa State A | 65 | 10 |
| John John Groger | Columbia A | UC Berkeley B | 71 | 10 |
| Albert Zhang | Columbia B | Indiana A | 71 | 10 |
| Brad MacLaine | Texas A | WUSTL B | 101 | -5 |
| Alan Xie | Yale B | Purdue A | 107 | -5 |
| Daniel Ma | Yale A | Ohio State A | 108 | 10 |
| Steven Liu | MIT A | Georgia Tech A | 114 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | UC Berkeley A | Imperial A | 114 | -5 |
| Vishal Kanigicherla | Penn A | Chicago A | 116 | -5 |
| Shardul Rao | Minnesota A | Houston A | 117 | -5 |
| Aidan Fein | Vanderbilt A | Rutgers A | 118 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Georgia Tech B | 121 | -5 |
| Jason Hong | Brown A | Northwestern A | 121 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | NYU A | Cornell B | 126 | -5 |
| Robert Condron | Chicago C | Duke A | 129 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Florida A | Toronto A | 130 | 10 |
| Justin Duffy | Harvard A | Maryland A | 131 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 131 | 10 |
| Matt Schiavone | Purdue A | Yale B | 140 | 10 |
| Alex Li | Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 140 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Penn A | 140 | 10 |
| June Yin | WUSTL B | Texas A | 141 | 0 |
| Joelle Smart | Rutgers A | Vanderbilt A | 141 | 10 |
| Isak Jatoi | South Carolina A | WUSTL A | 141 | 0 |
| Charles Hang | WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 141 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Michigan A | 141 | 0 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Illinois A | 141 | 0 |
| Michael Mays | Imperial A | UC Berkeley A | 141 | 0 |
| John Broussard | Houston A | Minnesota A | 141 | 0 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Minnesota B | 141 | 0 |
| Dan Ni | Cornell B | NYU A | 141 | 10 |