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Spherically symmetric radiative acceleration has been considered1 as a mechanism for the ejection of matter from quasistellar objects. I present some calculations showing that in a simplified case, a strongly beamed outflow will result if the source of the driving radiation is not point-like but a disk.
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ICKE, V. Radiative acceleration of gas above a luminous disk. Nature 266, 699–701 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/266699a0
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