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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vincent Du | North Carolina A | Iowa State A | 65 | 10 |
| Geoffrey Chen | Cornell A | Virginia A | 65 | 10 |
| Albert Zhang | Columbia B | Indiana A | 71 | 10 |
| John John Groger | Columbia A | UC Berkeley B | 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 |
| Jason Hong | Brown A | Northwestern A | 121 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Georgia Tech B | 121 | -5 |
| Halle Friedman | NYU A | Cornell B | 126 | -5 |
| Robert Condron | Chicago C | Duke A | 129 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Florida A | Toronto A | 130 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 131 | 10 |
| Justin Duffy | Harvard A | Maryland A | 131 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Penn A | 140 | 10 |
| Alex Li | Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 140 | 10 |
| Matt Schiavone | Purdue A | Yale B | 140 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Illinois A | 141 | 0 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Michigan 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 |
| June Yin | WUSTL B | Texas A | 141 | 0 |
| Joelle Smart | Rutgers A | Vanderbilt A | 141 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 141 | 10 |
| Isak Jatoi | South Carolina A | WUSTL A | 141 | 0 |