Rob Fender (Southampton) - Relativistic jets

Flexible high time resolution observations of accreting black holes and neutron stars over the
past 15 years, as part of mutliwavelength campaigns, have provided arguably the clearest
insight into the phenomenology of relativistic accretion, in particular the connection between
accretion and relativistic jets. LOFT will continue this work, and will furthermore do so during
an era in which we will greatly improve our capability of simultaneous ground-based radio and
infrared observations. In this talk I will review the current state of the art, and look forward to
what we could do with LOFT in concert with a new generation of ground-based facilities.