Can jets from rotating astronomical bodies be used for relativistic acceleration?

Compact, rapidly rotating astronomical objects (like neutron stars) are often observed to emit streams of high energy particle radiation along their poles. Near supermassive black holes in galactic cores, the velocity of these jets can reach 0.99c.

Could such a jet be used to accelerate an intergalactic probe to relativistic speeds?

Of course, this question is about fictional aliens living close to such a jet, since our galaxy does not have it.

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